Two people were shot Friday afternoon on Chef Menteur Highway in New Orleans East, with one victim treated and released at the scene and the other taken to a hospital, according to police. New Orleans Police Department officers responded to the 6000 block just after 12:30 p.m. and found the shooting had left two people injured.
Officers said one victim suffered a gunshot wound and was taken to a hospital by EMS, while the other was treated and released less than an hour later, as reported by Fox 8. Police described the incident as a shooting near Pines Village and said the investigation remains active. WWL-TV reported that emergency medical services treated the first gunshot victim on scene before releasing them, confirming the timeline officers gave.
A Familiar Stretch of Highway
The 6000 block of Chef Menteur Highway falls within the jurisdiction of NOPD’s Seventh District, which covers New Orleans East and operates out of its station on Dwyer Road. The corridor, designated U.S. Route 90, functions as a major commercial and transport artery connecting Gentilly and New Orleans East along the Pines Village boundary.
This is not the first time officers have been called to that exact block. Seventh District officers investigated a shooting in the same stretch of Chef Menteur Highway on September 17, 2025, that left an adult male hospitalized. The Metropolitan Crime Commission also recorded a fatal shooting there in May 2022, when a 36-year-old woman was killed on that stretch of the highway.
Part of a Cluster Near Pines Village
Friday’s shooting also adds to a string of recent gunfire calls in and around Pines Village. Just ten days earlier, a 16-year-old boy was shot and hospitalized in the neighboring 6300 block of Morrison Road, a case Hoodline previously covered after NOPD withheld the teen’s condition. Earlier in August, another nonfatal shooting wounded a victim near Chef Menteur Highway on Papani Drive, and in July, police searched for a driver accused of ramming victims with an SUV along the 6700 block of the same highway…