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Man killed in Pines Village; Third shooting in New Orleans on Sunday

It's the latest of three shootings on Sunday, which have left two dead and one wounded.

NEW ORLEANS — The NOPD is investigating a fatal shooting that occurred in the East Sunday afternoon. 

It's the third reported shooting in the city since Sunday morning, according to police.

Officers responded to a call for shots fired around 3 p.m. in the 6500 block of the I-10 Service Road in the Pines Village neighborhood in New Orleans East, officials said. 

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When Seventh District police arrived on the scene, they found a man suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. The victim was transported to University Medical Center, where he later died. 

The investigation is ongoing, police said. Neither a suspect nor a motive for the killing has been named. 

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It's the second fatal shooting in the city on Sunday, the first happening a few hours earlier in Algiers, where police found a struck man who died on the scene off of Newton Street. 

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Earlier in the morning, another shooting victim was found near the Mercedes-Benz Superdome around 8:30. That victim was taken to the hospital and is reportedly in stable condition. 

Stay with Eyewitness News on WWL-TV and WWLTV.com for more on this developing story. 

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