A woman living in Algiers says she called the police when she noticed an escaped juvenile detainee showed up in her neighborhood after fleeing custody.
The victim, 20-year-old Derrick Mosley, was found suffering from injuries to his face and multiple penetrating wounds. He was pronounced dead on the scene.
Another young mother was lost to gun violence, part of a quadruple shooting Saturday night that left two people dead in the Pines Village section of New Orleans East.
A 19-year-old man is recovering from multiple gunshot wounds sustained in the middle of the afternoon in one of the city’s most popular downtown areas.
Three women have lost their lives in separate incidents over the past 24 hours, adding to the concerning rise in the number of female victims across the city.
DEA operation nets thousands of arrests, seizure of massive drug and weapon cache, exposing the connection between Mexican Cartels and drug-related violence in New Orleans.
Family and friends of Katherine Elkins, a nurse at Touro Infirmary, say she was riding her bike away from Jazz Fest when a car slammed into her without slowing down or stopping.
Louisiana State Senator Royce Duplessis is proposing two measures to address the state’s high rate of gun violence in the wake of a fatal shooting that claimed the life of a Mandina's employee.