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Updated: Jul. 5, 2022 at 10:27 PM CDT
|By Natasha Robin
According to the city council data analyst, New Orleans could have the nation’s highest murder rate per 100,000 people.
Updated: Jul. 5, 2022 at 6:44 PM CDT
|By FOX 8 Staff
The body of a missing woman in Kenner was found Tuesday evening, according to police.
Updated: Jul. 5, 2022 at 2:37 PM CDT
|By Josh Auzenne
The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office said a high school custodian is accused of inappropriately touching a student.
Updated: Jul. 4, 2022 at 7:31 AM CDT
|By Ken Daley
Four suspects arrested as part of a kidnapping scheme that temporarily closed the Causeway Bridge on Saturday (July 2) have been identified by the JPSO.
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Updated: Jul. 2, 2022 at 8:52 PM CDT
|By FOX 8 Staff
A police chase involving a kidnapping suspect led to the Causeway Bridge being temporarily closed Saturday evening.
Updated: Jun. 30, 2022 at 10:41 PM CDT
|By David Jones
Five teens ranging in age from 16 to 19 years old were arrested in Slidell, accused of carjacking and shooting an Uber driver in New Orleans on Tuesday.
Updated: Jun. 30, 2022 at 5:20 PM CDT
|By Marchaund Jones
A New Orleans man is wanted for stealing a vehicle with a young child inside from the parking lot of a Chalmette gas station.
Updated: Jun. 30, 2022 at 6:44 AM CDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
A 24-year-old National Guardsman was gunned down in broad daylight while making a Doordash delivery Sunday (June 26) evening in the St. Roch neighborhood.
Updated: Jun. 29, 2022 at 8:06 PM CDT
|By FOX 8 Staff
NOPD is investigating a shooting that happened on the I-10 West at the Carrollton exit Wednesday evening
Updated: Jun. 28, 2022 at 10:20 PM CDT
|By Natasha Robin and Kaitlin Rust
Casandra Jones considered filing a restraining order against the man who ended up brutally killing her.
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Updated: Jun. 28, 2022 at 4:34 PM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
A manhunt is underway after a New Orleans murder suspect fled to Tennessee and reportedly shot a police officer, according to law enforcement sources.
Updated: Jun. 28, 2022 at 2:04 PM CDT
|By Chuck Morris, Carley Gordon and Marissa Sulek
An Erin Police officer was shot on Monday night while making a traffic stop just after 9 p.m. Monday.
Updated: Jun. 27, 2022 at 5:46 PM CDT
|By Natasha Robin
“This absolutely has an impact on the economy of the city,”
Updated: Jun. 26, 2022 at 10:42 PM CDT
|By FOX 8 Staff
NOPD is investigating several shootings that happened in the past 24 hours.
Updated: Jun. 26, 2022 at 10:32 PM CDT
|By FOX 8 Staff
A shooting in Harvey left one man dead Sunday afternoon.
Updated: Jun. 23, 2022 at 9:33 PM CDT
|By FOX 8 Staff
A Plaquemines Parish deputy is facing child pornography charges after a joint investigation by the sheriff’s office and the Louisiana Bureau of Investigation.
Updated: Jun. 23, 2022 at 9:23 PM CDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
State Police are investigating a shooting at the Harvey Office of Motor Vehicles that led to a police chase and crash.
Updated: Jun. 23, 2022 at 8:36 PM CDT
|By FOX 8 Staff
NOPD has arrested two suspects involved with the murder of 26-year-old Derell Brooks. The two suspects were identified as Traves Scott and Charles Penn.
Updated: Jun. 23, 2022 at 6:56 PM CDT
|By Natasha Robin
Chief Ferguson decided to make a plea to the public after what he calls a concerning trend of negligent homicides.
Updated: Jun. 23, 2022 at 9:33 AM CDT
|By FOX 8 Staff
At least six people have been shot in the past 24 hours in New Orleans.
Updated: Jun. 23, 2022 at 6:19 AM CDT
|By FOX 8 Staff
A 2-year-old was shot in the 8600 block of Apple Street Wednesday afternoon according to NOPD.
Updated: Jun. 22, 2022 at 1:13 PM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
Seven people crammed into the warehouse died.
Updated: Jun. 22, 2022 at 12:59 PM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
Two girls from St. Tammany Parish were found shot and dumped in the Venetian Isles area.
Updated: Jun. 22, 2022 at 12:17 PM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
It took Detroit Brooks weeks to muster up the strength to make a Facebook post about his grandson’s death.
Updated: Jun. 22, 2022 at 6:57 AM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
The killings bring the total number of homicides in New Orleans up to at least 142, according to data compiled by the Metropolitan Crime Commission.
Updated: Jun. 21, 2022 at 10:34 AM CDT
|By Marchaund Jones
NOPD have a suspect in connection with the Gentilly shooting that left one man dead Saturday (June 18) afternoon in the 3800 block of Gentilly Boulevard.
Updated: Jun. 20, 2022 at 11:17 AM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
Police say the woman grabbed her own weapon and told the two suspects to back up, which they did.
Updated: Jun. 19, 2022 at 10:02 AM CDT
|By FOX 8 Staff
Police are investigating a homicide Saturday afternoon in Gentilly Terrace.
Updated: Jun. 18, 2022 at 9:48 PM CDT
|By FOX 8 Staff
Two suspects demanded the man's keys and drove off in his vehicle.
Updated: Jun. 18, 2022 at 10:44 AM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
Two of five men at the center of an investigation into viral dangerous driving videos have been arrested, police say.
Updated: Jun. 18, 2022 at 10:05 AM CDT
|By FOX 8 Staff
One man is dead and another is behind bars after allegedly killing him with a pipe in New Orleans.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2022 at 5:13 PM CDT
|By David Jones
“If the streets were flooded with water to the extent they’re flooded with violent crime right now, we’d be moving heaven and earth to pump the water out,”
Updated: Jun. 17, 2022 at 1:33 PM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
At the scene of an overdose deaths, investigators found heroin they believed was purchased from Christopher Sealy.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2022 at 12:07 PM CDT
|By Jesse Brooks
In a press conference live-streamed on social media on Friday (June 17), Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson identified the victim as Joshua James, 32.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2022 at 6:44 AM CDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
The court raises an initially low bond for a Slidell man accused of shooting two North Shore teens in the head after raping one and leaving them for dead in New Orleans.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2022 at 6:35 AM CDT
|By Chris Finch and Andrés Fuentes
Officers found themselves back at the Bridge City Center for Youth less than one day after five inmates escaped. A SWAT team was called to the the 3200 blk. of River Road after an apparent fight broke out at the embattled detention center.
Updated: Jun. 15, 2022 at 7:58 PM CDT
|By FOX 8 Staff
A shooting in Metairie left one person injured and another in custody Wednesday evening.
Updated: Jun. 15, 2022 at 3:13 PM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
Frank Bartholomew, 49, and Laverne Duplessis, 40, have been arrested in connection to a graduation day murder.
Updated: Jun. 15, 2022 at 6:14 AM CDT
|By David Jones
Philip Soublet Sr. said he still has not heard from Sheriff Susan Hutson or her office three days after his son’s in-custody death at the Orleans Justice Center jail.
Updated: Jun. 14, 2022 at 4:43 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
Money is on the way to purchase new equipment for the police academy and DNA lab, new police cars, and ambulances.
Updated: Jun. 14, 2022 at 1:25 PM CDT
|By FOX 8 Staff
A man was found shot to death in the 4600 block of Lonely Oak Drive on June 14.
Updated: Jun. 14, 2022 at 11:23 AM CDT
|By FOX 8 Staff
A fight inside the Orleans Justice Center had left four people injured.
Updated: Jun. 12, 2022 at 9:52 PM CDT
|By Marchaund Jones
St. Charles Parish’s Sheriff’s Office have arrested a man for shooting his step-father in the back during an altercation.
Updated: Jun. 11, 2022 at 12:13 PM CDT
|By Ken Daley
Brandon Rock, 18, was booked Friday (June 10) on single counts of manslaughter and illegally carrying a weapon on school property.
Updated: Jun. 10, 2022 at 7:46 PM CDT
|By FOX 8 Staff
One man is dead after a shooting in the CBD Friday evening, according to NOPD.
Updated: Jun. 10, 2022 at 4:26 PM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent and Olivia Vidal
Police have been silent since Augustine Greenwood was killed at Morris Jeff's graduation ceremony.
Updated: Jun. 10, 2022 at 2:05 PM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
Since Monday, gun violence has claimed the lives of 10 people in New Orleans.
Updated: Jun. 10, 2022 at 1:13 PM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
Videos of drivers spinning donuts and bystanders kicking and jumping on an NOPD patrol car went viral on Sun., June 5.
Updated: Jun. 9, 2022 at 6:29 PM CDT
|By FOX 8 Staff
Two people are dead after a deadly shooting in the Seventh Ward Thursday evening.
Updated: Jun. 9, 2022 at 5:20 PM CDT
|By Natasha Robin
In the video, several gunshots are heard before two girls, one wounded, run screaming toward James Dalton's home, looking for shelter.