In the early morning hours of June 22, 2025, the quiet of a New Orleans East street was broken by a grim discovery. A passerby reported a man down in the 5600 block of Morrison Road, and at approximately 2:40 a.m., police officers arrived to find a male victim who had been fatally shot. The man was identified as 43-year-old Ashley Aples, a Jefferson Parish corrections officer. Aples, a father of three who had been with the sheriff's office for nearly two years, was not on duty at the time of his
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