NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — A man pled guilty Friday, Sept. 19 to various violent offenses, including an armed sexual assault in the French Quarter and a separate domestic violence shooting that endangered a young child.

According to the Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office, Ernest Dixson entered the Maskarade store on St. Ann Street where he forced the cashier at gunpoint to submit to a sexual assault and robbery before fleeing with her cellphone.

Utilizing camera footage, the New Orleans Police Department tracked Dixson within hours. DNA evidence was processed which corroborated the victim's account and identified Dixson.

The DA's office said in a separate incident, about a month earlier, Dixson showed up unannounced to his former partner's home. There he violently confronted her and fi

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