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New Orleans police will not ask for charges against the man who shot a suspected armed robber Friday night in the city's Gentilly neighborhood, an NOPD spokesman said Monday (Nov. 24).
The wounded man, identified by police as 22-year-old Samuel Sims, remains hospitalized with a gunshot wound to the chest following the shooting near the intersection of Paris Avenue and Treasure Street.
Upon his release from the hospital, Sims is expected to face charges of armed robbery and felon in possession of a firearm during a crime, said NOPD spokesman Officer Frank Robertson.
According to police, Sims approached a 28-year-old man around 6 p.m. and demanded his property. The man gave Sims his iPhone, police said, but Sims -- armed with a handgun -- demanded more.
The 28-year-old pulled out a gun and shot Sims in the chest, police said.
Sims ran to the home of his friends' stepfather in the nearby 3000 block of Bruxelles Street. That stepfather, a 60-year-old man who only gave his first name of Clayton, said he opened the door to find Sims doubled over on the front porch and saying, "Call my mama. I've been shot."
According to Clayton, Sims claimed that he was the robbery victim and had been shot during the robbery attempt.
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