Multiple shootings over Memorial Day weekend in New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Seven separate shootings that killed three and injured 12 happened across New Orleans in a violent Memorial Day weekend that saw a 12-year-old among the dead, according to information from the city’s police department.
WWL-TV reports the child was fatally shot Saturday night around 10:30 p.m. in the Holy Cross neighborhood. First responders took her to the hospital, where she died from her injuries. Also injured in the shooting were a 19-year-old man and an unknown third victim, who were both hospitalized.
A half-hour later Saturday night, another shooting happened around 11:09 p.m. in the area of the city known as New Orleans East, officials said, sending one female to the hospital with a gunshot wound. Two minutes later, another New Orleans East shooting was reported, with a man taken to the hospital with a gunshot wound, according to WWL.
By Sunday morning, a fourth shooting was reported in the New Orleans neighborhood of Gentilly, with a female shot and taken to the hospital. Shortly thereafter, officials discovered another shooting when someone with a gunshot wound arrived at a local hospital.
Meanwhile, the TV stations reports a pair of car-to-car shootings left two people dead Saturday.
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No suspects were immediately named in the shootings, and New Orleans police haven’t publicly identified those killed in the shootings, pending notification of their families.