Two Kids, 17 Adults Wounded in New Orleans Mother's Day Parade Shooting

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Syt

May 13, 2013, 12:07:57 AM
http://abcnews.go.com/US/mothers-day-parade-shooting-injures-19-including-kids/story?id=19163942#.UZB04bXIatZ

QuoteTwo Kids, 17 Adults Wounded in New Orleans Mother's Day Parade Shooting

New Orleans police were looking for three suspects tonight after someone opened fire at a Mother's Day parade, wounding as many as 19 people, including a 10-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl.

The shooting occurred at approximately 1:47 p.m., during a Second Line Parade, according to the New Orleans Police Department.

In addition to the two children, 10 men and seven women were wounded in the shooting, police said.

The two 10-year-olds had graze wounds to the body and were in good condition, police said. A man and a woman were in surgery this even as a result of their wounds.

Many of the victims were grazed, and no one was killed. Most of the wounds were not life-threatening, police said.

Mary Beth Romig, a spokeswoman for the FBI in New Orleans, described the shooting as "strictly an act of street violence in New Orleans," and said there was no indication it was an act of terrorism.

The the Original Big 7 Second Line parade started at around 1 p.m. with a full contingent of police officers. When the end of the parade reached North Villere and Frenchmen Street at about 1:47 p.m., shots were fired with different guns.

"It appears that these two or three people just for a reason unknown to us started shooting at towards or in the crowd," Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas said. "It was over in just a couple seconds."

ABC's Darian Trotter was participating in the Mother's Day Second Line when the shooting began.

"It took a second before I realized, OK I should run," Trotter said. "And, I ran and I went between two homes and jumped the fence and was in someone's back yard. And after a while you kind of realize it's OK to come out and you heard the loud screaming and yelling from grown men who obviously had been struck and women. It was just really chaotic."

Three suspects were seen running from the scene after the shooting, police said.

One suspect was described as an African-American male approximately 18-to-22-years-old, wearing a white T-shirt and blue jean shorts.

At a news conference outside one of the hospitals where victims were taken, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu asked the public for help finding the shooters.

"These kinds of incidents will not go unanswered. Somebody knows something," he said. "The way to stop this violence is for you all to help."

Though police said they were not sure whether certain individuals were targeted or whether it was a random shooting, they expressed confidence the suspects would be caught.

"We'll get them. We have good resources in this neighborhood," Serpas said.



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sbr

#1
May 13, 2013, 12:10:52 AM
Thank God for Liberty and Freedom.

U-S-A!!  U-S-A!!

Eddie Teach

#2
May 13, 2013, 12:13:15 AM
People in Canada like the Cleveland Indians? :blink:
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Syt

#3
May 13, 2013, 12:13:56 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on May 13, 2013, 12:13:15 AM
People in Canada like the Cleveland Indians? :blink:

Yes, and Vienna has a rampant Yankees fanbase, judging by the caps people wear. :rolleyes:
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

CountDeMoney

#4
May 13, 2013, 12:15:37 AM
Another Syt threadfail.  Typical Kraut.  Day late, a deutsche mark short.

This was already posted in the Happy Mother's Day thread.

Syt

#5
May 13, 2013, 12:17:12 AM
 :moon:
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Eddie Teach

#6
May 13, 2013, 12:18:26 AM
He's been in-TIMMY-dated. /groan
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jimmy olsen

#7
May 13, 2013, 12:31:42 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on May 13, 2013, 12:13:15 AM
People in Canada like the Cleveland Indians? :blink:
Maybe he's Korean?
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Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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Eddie Teach

#8
May 13, 2013, 01:17:59 AM
People in Korea like the Cleveland Indians? :blink:
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

jimmy olsen

#9
May 13, 2013, 01:20:55 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on May 13, 2013, 01:17:59 AM
People in Korea like the Cleveland Indians? :blink:
Shin-Soo Choo is the biggest Korean baseball star and he plays for the Indians.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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katmai

#10
May 13, 2013, 01:23:20 AM
He plays for Cincinnati now, but yeah was an Indian and Mariner before. 
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Martinus

#11
May 13, 2013, 04:56:30 AM
Only on Languish a thread about mass shooting would turn into one about Korean baseball players in under 10 posts.  :lol:

Eddie Teach

#12
May 13, 2013, 05:38:35 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on May 13, 2013, 01:20:55 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on May 13, 2013, 01:17:59 AM
People in Korea like the Cleveland Indians? :blink:
Shin-Soo Choo is the biggest Korean baseball star and he plays for the Indians.

I'd rather blame Charlie Sheen.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

merithyn

#13
May 13, 2013, 08:21:03 AM
Quote from: Martinus on May 13, 2013, 04:56:30 AM
Only on Languish a thread about mass shooting would turn into one about Korean baseball players in under 10 posts.  :lol:

But... no one died. It doesn't count. :unsure:
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I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away...
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