One person was killed and four others wounded in a shooting along the Bacchus parade route in uptown New Orleans last night. Gunfire rang out at around 9:30 PM and witnesses say everyone near the scene took cover to avoid getting hit by bullets.
“This is really not something we wanted to see, we really wanted this to be a safe Mardi Gras and we continue to work towards that end,” said New Orleans Police Department Deputy Chief Hans Ganthier.
Authorities say the person who was fatally shot is a male between the ages of 15 and 18 years old. The four victims treated and released ranged in age from a four-year-old girl to 24-year-old female.
NOPD Interim Superintendent Michelle Woodfork says a suspected shooter, a 21-year-old male, has been arrested.
“As result of NOPD’s quick response, with our partnering agencies, the suspect was apprehended within moments and two weapons were confiscated from the scene,” said Woodfork.
The person arrested is Mansour Mbodj.
Woodfork says they are conducting ballistic testing to see if he was the shooter or were there multiple gunmen. He says they are also trying to determine if he was the sole shooter and they do not know what sparked the shooting.
“We’ve been working all night on it and we are currently still working on leads and trying to get some surveillance video….so we can actually find out what happened out there,” said Woodfork.
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