NEW ORLEANS - Authorities are investigating the stabbing death of a man found inside a French Quarter home Wednesday night.

Officers with the New Orleans Police Department were called to a possible hostage situation at a home on Burgundy Street around 6:45 p.m., WWL-TV reports. At the scene, they found a man barricaded inside the home.

Authorities say he later surrendered and was taken into custody.

After talking with the man, officers searched the home and found another man stabbed to death inside. 

No further information was provided.