NEW ORLEANS — Police arrested one man on Monday in connection to a Sunday shooting that left a man dead and another wounded by a stray bullet.
NOPD officials said that Norman Lee, 23, was arrested without incident following a shooting on the corner of Martin Luther King Boulevard and Freret Street that reportedly happened after a second line on Sunday afternoon.
The NOPD's Homicide Unit investigated in the aftermath and named Lee as the prime suspect in the fatal incident.
He was booked into the Orleans Parish Justice Center and faces a charge of second-degree murder.
NOPD officers responded to the intersection of Freret Street and the boulevard on Sunday afternoon around 1:30. When they arrived, they found 34-year-old Clarence Mitchell with a gunshot wound to the head and another how had been shot in the leg.
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Mitchell was pronounced dead on the scene. Police said the man shot in the leg was a 79-year-old who was hit with a stray bullet. He is in stable condition. Neither victims' identities have been released.
Sunday afternoon's Central City shooting is the this weekend in Orleans Parish that police are now investigating.
Early Saturday morning, a man was found shot to death at Canal Street and Claiborne Avenue under the I-10 overpass.
Later that morning, police found a man shot in the head and killed in a pickup truck in the Irish Channel.
On Saturday night, police said a man was shot and injured while driving on I-10 eastbound in New Orleans East. He was able to drive himself to his mother's house and call 911 and was taken to the hospital in an ambulance.
Then before midnight Saturday, a man was shot and injured in the 13900 block of Wales Street.
If you have information on these crimes or any crimes in the city, police urge you to call Crimestoppers at 504-822-1111.