HARVEY, La. — A man from New Orleans was shot in the neck after trying to rob a sex worker he met at a motel in Harvey according to the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office.
As The Times-Picayune reports, 24-year-old Javen Cole will be charged with armed robbery once he is out of the hospital.
Investigators say on Sunday morning, Cole met a 21-year-old woman at the Travelodge in the 2200 block of Westbank Expressway in Harvey for an alleged prostitution date.
When Cole arrived at the motel the woman was already in the room with another 26-year-old man who was hiding in the bathroom.
It is not clear if Cole knew there was another man in the room but when he arrived he allegedly pulled out a gun, demanded the woman’s belongings, and forced her into the bathroom at gunpoint.
At that point, the 26-year-old unidentified man in the bathroom, who was also armed with a gun, confronted Cole and shot him in the neck.
Neither the man nor the woman face any charges in the incident according to the newspaper.
At the time of the Harvey hotel incident, Cole was out on bond after an earlier arrest for a separate shooting where he was charged with attempted second-degree murder.
In that incident, Cole allegedly got into an argument with a 54-year-old worker at a tow yard on Canal Street then forced his way into the tow yard and shot the man in the neck. He pleaded not guilty in that shooting.
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