A man and a woman were killed hours apart in two overnight homicides, according to the New Orleans Police Department.
Police said the homicides, which occurred about 6 miles apart, are being investigated as two separate incidents.
Police were called to the Lake Terrace area at the 2000 block of Lakeshore Drive, not far from LSU New Orleans, just before 9 p.m. Monday night on report of a stabbing. A man was reportedly stabbed multiple times sitting inside a car before he managed to escape, police said. The suspect then struck him with with a car.
He was taken to a local hospital by New Orleans EMS, where he later died just after midnight.
The suspect fled the scene.
Police were also called to the intersection of Old Gentilly Road and Wilson Avenue in the Venetian Isles neighborhood at around 2:38 a.m. Tuesday after a report of woman being shot.
Police found the victim, who had been shot in the thigh. She was declared dead on scene.
No further information was available about either homicide.
Source: www.nola.com
