The man accused of shooting and killing a Brennan's Restaurant sous chef during a Mid-City carjacking last week died in the hospital on Friday, New Orleans police said Sunday.

Raymond Wells, 21, was pronounced dead at University Medical Center at 1:06 a.m., according to NOPD spokesperson Karen Boudrie. Wells had been found on Interstate 10 near the Bonnabel Boulevard exit on Sept. 30 with a gunshot wound to his head, police said. Authorities said he was found in the car he allegedly stole from chef Carl Morgan after fatally shooting him one hour earlier.

Boudrie said the Jefferson Parish Coroner's Office will perform an autopsy on Wells. She did not say who is suspected of shooting him or whether the wound was self-inflicted.

Had he survived, Wells would have faced a warrant for first

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