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Joseph Fields

Case from New Orleans, LA dated Apr 17, 2017

Victim Details

Joseph Fields

March 28, 2022

Male

Black / African American

New Orleans

LA

2017-04-17

2017-04-17

28

Joseph

Fields

Yes

07/12/2026

1


Area Body Found:

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Joseph Fields, 28, was a Black man from New Orleans, Louisiana. On April 17, 2017, his life ended in New Orleans East along Chef Menteur Highway, where police were called to an apartment complex courtyard in the 6000 block after reports of a man down. Officers arrived to find him unresponsive, face down on the sidewalk, with what appeared to be a gunshot wound to the head, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.

In the hours that followed, investigators began the slow work that always c ...
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