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NOPD Releases New Images in the Joshua Woodruff Case

by Gary S. Scheets

November 2, 2017

Categories: Be on the Lookout

Topics: Traffic Fatality/Hit and Run

 

The NOPD is releasing new, never-before seen images tracing the path of the vehicle and driver sought in the hit and run dragging death of Joshua Woodruff, a Nebraska tourist visiting New Orleans for New Year celebrations in 2015.
 
The new images of the vehicle believed to be involved are hoped to prompt anyone who may have seen something on that evening to come forward and provide information crucial to the investigation.

A gallery of the images can be viewed here

The never-before seen images come from security cameras in the French Quarter along the route – specifically Ursulines, Dauphine, and Chartres streets - traveled by the suspect after Woodruff was hit near the intersection of Dumaine and Decatur streets.
 
Woodruff was in New Orleans with friends to celebrate the New Year. Around 3 a.m. on January 1, 2016, Woodruff was at the intersection of Dumaine and Decatur streets in the French Quarter when a dark-colored four-door sedan struck him and dragged his body from the French Quarter up to Interstate 10 and across the Mississippi River to the West Bank.
 
His body was found around 3:30 a.m. on the West Bank Expressway near the General De Gaulle Drive exit.
 
The new images provide never before seen images of the suspect vehicle.
 
The NOPD remains committed to bring the perpetrator(s) to justice.
 
Anyone with information on this asked to contact incident is asked to contact Detective Robert Barrere in the Homicide Section at (504) 658-5300 or email at rbarrere@nola.gov.
 
Anyone with information can also contact Crimestoppers at 504-822-1111 or toll-free at 1-877-903-STOP.

 

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