The 16-year-old Walter L. Cohen student killed in a murder-suicide while walking to the school bus this week was identified as Lizzell Sarahy Palma Villeda by the Orleans Parish Coroner's Office Friday.

New Orleans police confirmed that Villeda was allegedly killed by a 20-year-old man who then turned the gun on himself in the 1800 block of Jo Ann Place in the Behrman neighborhood Wednesday morning.

Police responded to a call about a shooting at around 7:49 a.m. They found Villeda and the alleged shooter lying in the street.

A neighbor who witnessed the shooting said she saw the man standing around the corner of Americus Street and Jo Ann before he took a gun from his book bag and approached Villeda, shooting her before shooting himself.

Cohen High School confirmed Villeda was an

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