20-year-old gunned down in Harvey neighborhood: ‘It sounded like a war.’

A 20-year-old man was shot and killed in front of a Harvey home Wednesday morning in a hail of gunfire that startled residents of the usually quiet neighborhood.

The homicide was reported about 30 minutes after a 15-year-old boy arrived at West Jefferson Medical Center in Marrero with life-threatening gunshot wounds.

As of Wednesday evening, Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office detectives were still working to determine whether the two shootings, which occurred less than two miles of one another, were related, according to Sgt. Brandon Veal, spokesperson for the department…

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