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WWLTV published November 17, 2024: 2 dead, 10 injured in mass shooting at New Orleans parade.
The New Orleans Police Department is investigating two separate shootings that left two people dead and ten others injured in the St. Roch neighborhood during the Nine Times Social Aid and Pleasure Club Second line.
WDSU News published Nov 18, 2024: Two people shot and killed during a second line in New Orleans have been identified.
CBS News
written by Staff, AP
Monday November 18, 2024
Two people were killed and 11 others were wounded in two separate shootings along a New Orleans parade route and celebration attended by thousands on Sunday, authorities said. There were no immediate arrests.
Officers responding to reports of gunfire shortly after 3:30 p.m. on an avenue in the city's St. Roch neighborhood found eight victims with gunshot wounds, according to a news release from the New Orleans Police Department. All eight were taken to hospitals in unknown condition. Police later said a ninth wounded person arrived at a hospital via a private car.
CBS New Orleans affiliate WWL-TV reports that, according to investigators, ballistics showed that two shooters were involved.
About 45 minutes later, police received another report of gunfire as revelers were crossing the Almonaster Avenue Bridge, just over half a mile to the north. One person died at the scene and another died at a hospital, police said. A third victim was driven to a hospital in a private vehicle and was in stable condition, police said.
No arrests were announced and no suspect information was released.
The St. Roch neighborhood is several blocks northeast of the city's French Quarter that is popular with tourists.
The Almonaster Bridge was closed in both directions during the investigation.
Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said detectives didn't immediately know if the incidents were related.
"They were ... different kinds of approaches," she said of the shootings, which occurred in the area where a "second line," a celebration following a parade, was taking place.
Thousands had gathered for the annual outing of the Nine Times Social Aid & Pleasure Club in the 9th Ward, organizer Oscar Brown told NOLA.com.
"It is a wonderful event, and we want to keep it a wonderful event," Kirkpatrick said.
It was the second major shooting in the South since gunfire marred a homecoming weekend at Tuskegee University in Alabama on Nov. 10, killing one person and injuring 16 others, a dozen of them by gunfire, authorities said.
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