The man killed by a police officer after he allegedly shot two people outside of Tulane University’s medical school in the Central Business District was Lafimmas Haynes, according to social media posts from his family and a source familiar with the matter.
New Orleans police said Haynes, 38, shot two people at around 2:44 p.m. Thursday in the 1400 block of Tulane Avenue, in the midst of a busy medical corridor bordered by the medical school and the Tulane University Medical Center’s emergency department, before being fatally shot by a responding Tulane officer.
The source familiar with the matter said Haynes was a psychiatric patient who had recently been discharged from University Medical Center. He had just left Tulane University Medical Center after being told he had to pass through a metal detector when he allegedly opened fire around the corner from the hospital, the source said…