Joseph Esposito, a 29-year-old Hispanic man, was shot on August 1, 2017, in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward, in an eruption of violence that began with a frantic call for help and ended in a hospital room. Just before 6 p.m., officers were dispatched to the 1000 block of Tupelo Street on a report of an aggravated battery by shooting. Inside a residence, they found him suffering from apparent gunshot wounds. Paramedics rushed him from the house to an area hospital, but the injuries were too sever
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