Family wants answers after officer shot and killed gunman on Tulane Avenue

NEW ORLEANS — The New Orleans Police Department’s Force Investigation Team is reviewing video footage after a chaotic triple shooting on Thursday afternoon left one man dead and two others hospitalized.

The deceased has been identified by family members as 38-year-old Lafimmas Leevon Haynes.

The incident, which involved officers from the Tulane University Police Department (TUPD), has sparked a demand for transparency from the victim’s grieving relatives.

A Deadly Confrontation

According to NOPD Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick, the violence began around 2:45 p.m. Thursday just outside Tulane Medical School…

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