NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – The St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff’s Office is investigating the deaths of two people who were found shot inside a car in the 1900 block of Yorktowne Drive in LaPlace at around 2:40 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 19.
Deputies were dispatched to the area after the sheriff’s office received a 911 call at about 2:30 p.m. reporting that a vehicle had struck a house on Yorktowne Drive. When deputies arrived, they found two males unresponsive inside a Toyota Camry, the driver and a front-seat passenger.
Both had been shot and were pronounced dead at the scene by the St. John Parish coroner…