19 injured in New Orleans parade shooting
Posted May 12, 2013 5:48 pm.
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New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu asked the public for help in finding those responsible for the Mother’s Day parade shooting on Sunday.
“We are going to find this person but we need the public’s help. And this is worth repeating: there were hundreds of people there, and somebody saw something, and somebody saw something that they know. And it’s important for them to report that information to us,” he said.
Nineteen people including two young children were shot when gunfire erupted at a Mother’s Day parade in New Orleans, police said.
Shots rang out at 1:45 p.m. local time as the second line of the parade passed the 1400 block of Frenchmen Street in the city, a New Orleans Police Department spokesman said.
Ten men and seven woman were shot along with a 10-year-old girl and 10-year-old boy. The children were grazed and are in good condition.
New Orleans police superintendent Ronal Serpas told reporters at least one other person was injured as spectators fled the scene.
Emergency medical responders took 11 people to Interim LSU Public Hospital in New Orleans, according to a hospital spokesman who said he could not discuss their conditions because he did not have their consent.
Officers saw three suspects running away, one described as dark-skinned male aged 18 to 22 with short hair, Serpas said. No arrests were made.
The incident is not the first shooting involving multiple casualties in New Orleans this year.
In February four people were wounded in a shooting outside a nightclub in the city’s French Quarter as crowds gathered for Mardi Gras celebrations.
