NEW ORLEANS — The New Orleans Police Department is investigating after a man was fatally shot in a New Orleans East neighborhood and another man was shot in the Central Business District early Sunday morning.
The first shooting happened at about 1100 block of Tulane Avenue. Police say a male victim was wounded by gunfire at about 2:12 a.m. Sunday. He was taken to the hospital by EMS. His condition is unknown at this time.
Later that morning at about 6:35 a.m. police responded to another shooting, this time it happened in the 4500 block of Werner Drive in the Plum Orchard neighborhood of New Orleans East.
The male victim in that shooting was also transported to the hospital by EMS but he later died from his injury.
The investigation into the two shootings is ongoing. Police have not said if the shootings were related.
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