A man was shot in the neck Saturday evening in the 6000 block of Dwyer Road in New Orleans’ Seventh District, prompting an aggravated battery investigation by police. Officers responded after a call came in at 6:56 p.m. reporting the shooting, and the victim was taken to a local hospital for treatment.
According to WDSU, the New Orleans Police Department is investigating the incident as an aggravated battery by shooting in the 6000 block of Dwyer Road. Seventh District officers were the ones who took the call about a male shot in the neck, and the outlet reported he was transported to a local hospital for treatment.
Location Described as Pines Village
FOX 8 placed the shooting in the Pines Village area, reporting that a man was shot in the neck in the same 6000 block of Dwyer Road, per NOPD. That station said no other information was available beyond the location and the injury.
Neither outlet has reported the man’s identity or his condition after he reached the hospital. There is also no information yet on a suspect, a motive, or whether anyone has been arrested in connection with the shooting.
Dwyer Road Has Seen Other Shootings
This is not the first violent incident reported along Dwyer Road in recent memory. The station previously reported that a woman was found with at least one gunshot wound at the intersection of Dwyer Road and Rickert Drive in the Plum Orchard area shortly before 4:40 p.m., in a separate case, with EMS taking her to a local hospital.
Another earlier case near Downman and Dwyer roads turned fatal, with NOPD officers reclassifying the incident as a homicide after the victim died from his injuries hours later, according to WGNO. In yet another Pines Village shooting reported separately, the station said the victim sustained a graze wound to her head and was taken to a local hospital.
No further details have been released about Saturday’s shooting on Dwyer Road, and the investigation remains open.
