NEW ORLEANS — The suspect in a fatal shooting in the West Lake Forest neighborhood was arrested early Friday morning after barricading himself in an apartment a few miles away.
The New Orleans Police Department was originally called to investigate a homicide in the West Lake Forest neighborhood Thursday night.
According to police, the shooting happened in the 5700 block of Read Blvd at around 9:52 p.m. NOPD said there was only one victim and that the person died on the scene.
About three hours later, at 1:08 a.m., NOPD officials called a SWAT team to the 10500 block of Curran Boulevard in the Little Woods neighborhood, after a man they say was involved in the shooting barricaded himself inside an apartment there.
That suspect was taken into custody just after 3 a.m.
Nobody was injured during the standoff.
Neither the suspect nor the victim has been named as of Friday morning.
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