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Updated: 9 hours ago
|By Andrés Fuentes
New Orleans police are investigating four similar restaurant burglaries that occurred over a four-day span.
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Updated: 15 hours ago
|By FOX 8 Staff
Investigators say after the shooting, Jalen Harvey drove Joseph Vindel’s SUV to New Orleans for over an hour with his body inside.
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Updated: Oct. 4, 2022 at 8:03 PM CDT
|By Ken Daley
Delshawnique Taylor-Fluker, 32, was fatally shot Sept. 5 near the corner of General Meyer and Behrman avenues in Algiers
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Updated: Oct. 4, 2022 at 3:35 PM CDT
|By Ken Daley
The man is sought for questioning regarding the Sept. 21 fatal shooting of 59-year-old Clayton Thornton
Updated: Oct. 3, 2022 at 10:23 PM CDT
|By David Jones
Seven people have been killed in the 25 shootings reported on New Orleans highways through Sept. 30
Updated: Oct. 3, 2022 at 5:59 PM CDT
|By Natasha Robin
As of Mon., Oct. 3, New Orleans police have investigated 220 homicides since Jan. 1. In 2021, there were 218 homicides.
Updated: Oct. 3, 2022 at 6:10 AM CDT
|By Marchaund Jones
A woman accused of killing a 70-year-old man in Reserve has turned herself in to authorities and is now behind bars, according to St. John Sheriff Mike Tregre.
Updated: Sep. 30, 2022 at 10:59 PM CDT
|By David Jones
Scott Toups was released this week from the Intensive Car Unit at University Medical Center, where he fought for his life for more than two months since he was shot twice and carjacked Uptown.
Updated: Sep. 30, 2022 at 3:29 PM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
A third arrest has been made in the murder of Jairen Cole, 15, of Thibodaux.
Updated: Sep. 28, 2022 at 5:52 PM CDT
|By Natasha Robin
DJ Jubilee has lost 39 young athletes over the years to violence and now he says the at-risk youth seem unreachable.
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Updated: Sep. 28, 2022 at 2:02 PM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
New Orleans police have arrested a man accused of multiple stabbings over a three-day span.
Updated: Sep. 27, 2022 at 8:15 PM CDT
|By FOX 8 Staff
NOPD officer Marcus McNeil was fatally shot in New Orleans East on Oct. 13, 2017
Updated: Sep. 26, 2022 at 6:26 PM CDT
|By Natasha Robin
The NOPD said Tyrone Wiltz is the attempted home invader who shot Joe Cooper in the doorway of his Gentilly house on May 23.
Updated: Sep. 26, 2022 at 11:16 AM CDT
|By FOX 8 Staff
Tyrin Wiltz was taken into custody last Wednesday after barricading himself inside a Slidell apartment.
Updated: Sep. 26, 2022 at 10:46 AM CDT
|By FOX 8 Staff
A woman has been arrested after police say she threw her baby off a bridge in Houma.
Updated: Sep. 24, 2022 at 8:54 PM CDT
|By FOX 8 Staff
A man and a woman were shot and killed in Marrero Saturday evening, JPSO says.
Updated: Sep. 24, 2022 at 6:41 PM CDT
|By FOX 8 Staff
Police arrested a suspect accused of shooting a man in the St. Roch neighborhood Saturday morning.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2022 at 10:17 PM CDT
|By David Jones
Loved ones gathered Friday evening at Joe Brown Park to remember a 19-year-old girl gunned down outside of a Plum Orchard tire shop, calling for justice and an end to the epidemic of gun violence plaguing New Orleans’ streets.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2022 at 9:47 PM CDT
|By FOX 8 Staff
Terrebonne Parish Sheriff’s deputies arrested owners of multiple massage parlors responsible for a human trafficking ring and prostitution.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2022 at 9:05 PM CDT
|By Natasha Robin
A crime victim says he is furious after finding out the juvenile who held him at gunpoint walked free.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2022 at 8:15 AM CDT
|By FOX 8 Staff
Three people were shot in Tulane-Gravier near the University Medical Center on Thursday evening according to NOPD.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2022 at 8:52 PM CDT
|By FOX 8 Staff
A former NOPD officer accused of sexual assault faces federal civil rights charges.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2022 at 7:32 PM CDT
|By FOX 8 Staff
A former St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office employee has been arrested for malfeasance, police say.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2022 at 5:35 PM CDT
|By Natasha Robin
The goal is to decrease response times as the NOPD deals with a serious manpower shortage.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2022 at 5:12 PM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
Officials are searching for an 18-year-old accused of breaking into a home in Hammond, killing a man and critically wounding his 12-year-old daughter, Chief Jimmy Travis says.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2022 at 12:12 PM CDT
|By FOX 8 Staff
Video captured Larrianna Jackson assaulting a 64-year-old wheelchair-bound teacher and throwing her to the ground after the dismissal bell rang in October 2021.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2022 at 10:34 AM CDT
|By Natasha Robin and FOX 8 Staff
The niece of a New Orleans councilman has become one of the city’s latest victims of gun violence.
Updated: Sep. 20, 2022 at 4:35 PM CDT
|By FOX 8 Staff
Burdett was convicted in July on four felony tax fraud counts stemming from her personal tax returns
Updated: Sep. 20, 2022 at 3:58 PM CDT
|By FOX 8 Staff
Wendell Lachney, accused of killing 9-year-old Abigail Douglas in a drunken crash, pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide in Jefferson Parish court on Tuesday (Sept. 20).
Updated: Sep. 19, 2022 at 8:50 PM CDT
|By Ken Daley
Hayes admitted he fatally shot Smith during an April 2016 traffic dispute in the Lower Garden District
Updated: Sep. 19, 2022 at 5:41 PM CDT
|By Natasha Robin
With 52 homicides per 100,000 people, New Orleans has surpassed St. Louis (45 per 100,000) for the top homicide rate in the country.
Updated: Sep. 19, 2022 at 4:21 PM CDT
|By FOX 8 Staff
A Jefferson Parish judge on Monday (Sept. 19) sentenced a 16-year-old to 55 years in prison for carjacking a couple in Harahan earlier this year, according to District Attorney Paul Connick.
Updated: Sep. 17, 2022 at 10:37 PM CDT
|By FOX 8 Staff
Three shootings within miles of each other left one person dead and two injured Saturday evening police said.
Updated: Sep. 17, 2022 at 9:21 PM CDT
|By FOX 8 Staff
The Coast Guard Investigative Service arrested a boater near Venice, Friday who allegedly fired a weapon at a Coast Guard rescue helicopter.
Updated: Sep. 17, 2022 at 9:02 AM CDT
|By Ken Daley
Police have booked 23-year-old Brian Taylor with Stewart's murder at the Hyundai Slidell car dealership.
Updated: Sep. 16, 2022 at 10:23 PM CDT
|By FOX 8 Staff
Lafourche Parish deputies are searching for an inmate that escaped from the Lafourche Parish Correctional Complex.
Updated: Sep. 16, 2022 at 6:53 PM CDT
|By FOX 8 Staff
Slidell Police said Brian Taylor, 23, is accused of fatally shooting 22-year-old Zakary Stewart
Updated: Sep. 16, 2022 at 5:16 PM CDT
|By Natasha Robin
Several other Starbucks locations will remain open in New Orleans and neighboring Canal Street business owners say they have no intention of joining the national chain in evacuating the area.
Updated: Sep. 15, 2022 at 10:46 PM CDT
|By David Jones
Some New Orleans neighbors are increasingly looking to private security companies to act as a deterrent to crime, especially more minor crimes like burglaries or shoplifting.
Updated: Sep. 15, 2022 at 4:43 PM CDT
|By Olivia Vidal
Officials say the number of crimes involving young teens is on the rise in the relatively quiet Lafourche Parish community.
Updated: Sep. 15, 2022 at 4:15 PM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
“If this case were to remain in juvenile court, this would mean that Myles would have no accountability for these horrible actions and my office will not allow that,”
Updated: Sep. 15, 2022 at 10:10 AM CDT
|By FOX 8 Staff
A 12-year-old and a 15-year-old were arrested for shooting another teen in Thibodaux Saturday (Sept. 10) evening, police say.
Updated: Sep. 14, 2022 at 9:31 PM CDT
|By David Jones
A string of coordinated overnight car break-ins in Metairie has frustrated some neighbors in the area of Kawanee Avenue.
Updated: Sep. 14, 2022 at 5:05 PM CDT
|By Natasha Robin
Gun violence in New Orleans has sent 584 people to the hospital, killing over 200 of them, according to MCC data.
Updated: Sep. 14, 2022 at 5:43 AM CDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
Recycling company owner Hendrik Vanderwall said thieves stole his truck and custom trailer Saturday near the corner of Magazine and Notre Dame streets in New Orleans' Warehouse District.
Updated: Sep. 12, 2022 at 2:28 PM CDT
|By FOX 8 Staff
A female suspect led deputies on a 20-min chase across the Crescent City Connection bridge.
Updated: Sep. 12, 2022 at 10:54 AM CDT
|By FOX 8 Staff
A man was shot and killed Friday evening in the Broadmoor neighborhood, according to NOPD.
Updated: Sep. 11, 2022 at 9:36 PM CDT
|By FOX 8 Staff
A man was fatally shot in Algiers Sunday evening according to NOPD.
Updated: Sep. 9, 2022 at 9:11 PM CDT
|By FOX 8 Staff
Hammond Police arrested eight people after a shootout in downtown Hammond early Friday morning.
Updated: Sep. 9, 2022 at 7:41 AM CDT
|By FOX 8 Staff
The Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office and the NOPD is investigating a deptuy-involved shooting in Algiers.