One person died at a hospital after he was wounded in a Gentilly shooting Tuesday morning, according to the New Orleans Police Department.

The shooting was reported at 9:45 a.m. in the 2400 block of Mexico Street, where police found an unidentified male with a gunshot wound. Police said paramedics transported the victim to a local hospital, where he later died.

Investigators said the shooting occurred in the 6300 block of Arts Street, a couple of blocks away from where it was initially reported.

By 11:30 a.m., three NOPD vehicles had blocked off a portion of Arts Street as nearly a dozen officials scoped the crime scene. Some observed a white vehicle parked in front of a brick house. Over 30 yellow crime markers were scattered from one side of the street to the other, near a trash can,

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