NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – Almost a hundred people gathered Wednesday evening at the Mardi Gras Fountain on the New Orleans Lakefront to share stories and honor 43-year-old Ashley Aples.
The New Orleans Police Department says Aples was shot and killed on June 22 in the 5600 block of Morrison Road. Officers responded around 2:40 a.m. after a passerby reported seeing a man on the ground with possible gunshot wounds. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.
Aples was working as a corrections officer with the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office at the time of his death…