CHALMETTE, La. — A New Orleans woman shot and killed her boyfriend, who is also the father of her child, outside of his workplace in Chalmette Sunday.
The incident occurred around 7 p.m. in the 8100 block of West Judge Perez Drive in Chalmette.
According to the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office, 20-year-old Alexis King of New Orleans was booked with second-degree murder.
The sheriff's office said that deputies received a call of shots fired in the parking lot of a business at the location and those who arrived on the scene found the victim, who has not yet been identified, suffering from a gunshot wound.
He was taken to University Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.
Sheriff James Pohlmann said that King admitted to the shooting.
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