Traffic in Interstate 610’s eastbound lanes slowed Tuesday evening at the Franklin Avenue exit as the New Orleans Police Department investigated an unclassified death.
Police announced the I-610’s closure shortly after 5 p.m., but in a 6 p.m. update amended that statement to say that the interstate remained open, though traffic had backed up due to the investigation.
NOPD received a report of a body in grass near the interstate at around 4:21 p.m. They found a woman there, and EMS pronounced her dead on the scene…