Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office deputies are investigating a late afternoon shooting in the 3800 block of West Martin Luther King Drive.

Deputies say the female victim who traveled with her three kids from Atlanta, Georgia to the area to visit family with her three children, stopped to ask for directions after she got lost. The woman told deputies after she got out of her vehicle; she was approached by a black male dressed in a black hoodie and black shorts. That’s when the man tried to rob her at gunpoint. The woman said she immediately ran when the gunman shot her in the forearm.

Deputies say she fled to some nearby apartment and honked her horn until help arrived. She was taken to Ochsner LSU Health with non-life-threatening injuries. Her three children who were still in the vehicle were not injured.

The suspect in this robbery is said to have fled on foot.

This is an ongoing investigation. If you have any information about this attempted robbery and shooting, please call the Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office at 318-675-2170.