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The Times-Picayune
Metro Briefs
12/30/01

NEW ORLEANS Would-be robber killed, police say

A man who police say was robbing another man was killed Friday night
when his intended victim pulled a gun and shot him in New Orleans’ Lake
Forest neighborhood, authorities said. Seventh District police officers
responding to the 11 p.m. shooting at 4316 Dodt St. found one man shot
in the leg and another shot in the leg, chest and hand, New Orleans
Police Department spokesman Joe Narcisse said. The man who had been shot
several times was dead. The other man was taken to Charity Hospital for
treatment, Narcisse said. The dead man had not been identified as of
Saturday afternoon, according to the Orleans Parish coroner’s office.
Police did not give the other man’s name. A department news release said
he has not been charged, but that the district attorney’s office would
be consulted. Police determined that the apparent robbery target was
walking in a courtyard to an apartment when he was approached by the
other man, who was armed with a handgun and tried to rob him, Narcisse
said. The man refused to give his money to the robber and pulled out his
own handgun.

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