Coroner IDs three victims from weekend killings across New Orleans neighborhoods

Three victims of fatal shootings over the weekend have been identified Wednesday by the Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office.

In total, nine people where shot Saturday in a spate of violence across the Crescent City.

The third homicide victim of the weekend was the ninth and final shooting victim of the day. In addition to the two fatal killings, a shooting in Read Boulevard West sent a 16-year-old teenage boy to the hospital and there was quadruple shooting at a Little Woods house party.

Woman killed in St. Roch

Essence Charnique Peters, 24, was found dead just after 5 p.m. in the 2000 block of Marigny Street in the St. Roch neighborhood…

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