By Associated Press - Tuesday, February 21, 2017

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Authorities have identified a man shot to death on Canal Street in New Orleans as 37-year-old Kentri Harper of Jackson, Mississippi.

New Orleans police say the gunfire early Sunday morning left Harper dead and another man wounded.

NOLA.com/The Times-Picayune reports (https://bit.ly/2lFcvnB ) that the shooting happened in the 1500 block of Canal Street early Sunday morning.



Police say they found both men in a parking lot with gunshot wounds.

Harper died at the scene, and the wounded man was brought to a local hospital with multiple wounds. Details about the wounded man haven’t been released.

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Information from: The Times-Picayune, https://www.nola.com

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