FBI investigating possible homicide in Plaquemines Parish

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The FBI is investigating a death on a vessel in Plaquemines Parish, but details are scarce about the incident.
Sheila Thorne, an FBI spokeswoman, said the agency was called in to investigate a "crime on the high seas" Wednesday morning involving an unidentified vessel that was located 30 miles off the Plaquemines Parish coast in the Gulf Of Mexico. Thorne would only say that a single individual was found dead on the vessel. She would not comment on the cause of death, or the gender or age of the victim.
A Coast Guard official said that the agency was called to evacuate an unidentified man from an oil rig platform at about 6:45 a.m. near West Main Pass in connection with the death. He would not release any information on that man's injuries.
Early reports indicated that there may have been a shooting on the vessel that left one man dead and two others injured, but Thorne would not discuss those reports.