Man killed in Uptown double shooting identified as Chalmette native

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – A quiet Uptown neighborhood is shaken after an early morning double shooting left one man dead and another injured.

The deadly incident unfolded just before 3 a.m. Sunday (April 6) in the 7700 block of Willow Street.

New Orleans police arrived to find two men shot inside a car, one of them already dead. Friends have identified the deceased as 24-year-old Colby Scheffler, a Chalmette native and graduate of Chalmette High School who later served in the U.S. Army…

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