A New Orleans man accused of shooting and killing a Brennan's Restaurant sous chef during a Mid-City carjacking later died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, according to an autopsy by the Jefferson Parish Coroner's Office.

Raymond Wells, 21, was pronounced dead Oct. 3 , three days after Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office deputies found him wounded behind the wheel of a stolen car on Interstate 10 in Metairie.

Had Wells survived the injury, he would have been arrested and booked with first-degree murder in the death of 36-year-old Carl Morgan , officials with the New Orleans Police Department have said.

Morgan was picking up his young son from daycare at the Abeona House Child Discovery Center on Canal Street on the evening of Sept. 30, when New Orleans police say Wells

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