NEW ORLEANS — A 35-year-old man was arrested on Thursday in connection with a homicide that occurred on April 30, 2022, in the 4000 block of Dauphine Street.
Brian Lewis was taken into custody without incident at a residence by a collaborative effort from the NOPD’s Violent Offender Warrant Squad, U.S. Marshals, NOPD tactical platoons and the Violent Crime Abatement Investigative Team.
NOPD detectives positively identified Lewis as the perpetrator in the fatal shooting that wounded a man and claimed the life a woman – 34-year-old Kelly Bennett.
Lewis was booked into the Orleans Parish Justice Center on one count of second-degree murder.
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