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One adult and two children are dead and one person remains in critical condition after a Friday morning quadruple shooting in Gentilly. The shootings happened in the 4200 block of Touro Street.
The victims are identified as Jumyrin Smith, 6, Justin Simms, 10, and Monique Smith, age 30.
The fourth victim has not yet been identified.
New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Michael Harrison described “a very horrific scene.”
“We are working to identify a motive. We are working to identify how or why, and of course who would have done this,” he said.
The call was initially reported as a triple shooting, but police sources later confirmed that four people were shot.
Monique Smith was so loved at her place of work, Frostop, uptown, it closed upon hearing that she and children were killed. pic.twitter.com/F4Uq5mfb5T
— Meg Farris (@megfarrisWWL) March 10, 2017
Source: NOPD: 3 killed, including two children, in Gentilly quadruple shooting
