The Wing Taxi on Toulouse Street in the French Quarter had only been open since last Friday, but its doors were already locked up tight Wednesday.
That came after its owner, Richard Washington, was found shot to death behind his Marigny apartment in the 2200 block of Burgundy Street Sunday evening.
The shooting happened about 7:30 p.m. Washington, who was known to friends and family as “Snapper,” died about four hours later at the hospital.
Washington opened his first Wing Taxi in Shreveport about 20 years ago.
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