Police: Gangs, arguments prompted Mardi Gras shootings
NEW ORLEANS — Gang enmity was behind the bloodiest of three shootings on Mardi Gras, while arguments among acquaintances touched off two earlier shootings, New Orleans’ police chief said Wednesday.
The shootings killed three men and wounded three men and two teenage boys, altogether.
In the most deadly of the three shootings, two men were killed and three men were wounded in an attack “linked to vicious gang activity,” Superintendent Michael Harrison said. He did not give details.
Witnesses described a fusillade of bullets that targeted men in a car outside a house where a party was going on a few miles from the parade route and hours after Tuesday’s last parade.