A man is in custody after one person was killed and four others – including a 4-year-old girl – were injured in a shooting Sunday night along a Mardi Gras parade route ahead of the city’s The parade shooting is the city's fourth mass shooting in 2023 and the sixth since the start of December. There were 12 mass shootings last year. A mass shooting injures or kills at least four 1 killed and 4 injured in New Orleans shooting 01:51. Five people were shot at a Mardi Gras parade Sunday night and one died, New Orleans police said. A shooting Sunday night at a parade route in New Orleans, Louisiana, left one person dead and four others wounded. (WVUE) Three of the five victims were men, along with a woman and a young girl. The Krewe of Bacchus, with more than 1,600 members and 32 floats, holds its parade each year on the Sunday before Mardi Gras. The parade traditionally ends with a black-tie party that attracts Longtime resident Kristie Bowerman, 49, said the incident on Sunday night marked the third time she has witnessed a shooting at a Mardi Gras parade. She described the scene as "mass chaos." READ HERE: Mass shooting at Bacchus Mardi Gras parade leaves 1 dead, 4 hospitalized: What to know. NO.paradefolo.0221230001.jpg Updated Feb 20, 2023. The parade, a major event in Carnival season in the city, had been scheduled to begin at 5:15 p.m. Sunday. Mardi Gras is Tuesday. Deputy Police Superintendent Hans Ganthier expressed One person was shot dead and four others were wounded after a gunman opened fire along the route of a popular Mardi Gras parade on Sunday, authorities say.. The shooting occurred at about 9.30pm Two people were killed and 14 others injured in mass shootings that occurred over the weekend during the Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans and at a nightclub in Memphis, police said. Mass shooting at Bacchus Mardi Gras parade leaves 1 dead, 4 hospitalized: What to know. Five people were shot Sunday night during the Krewe of Bacchus parade on the busiest weekend of the Mardi Longtime resident Kristie Bowerman, 49, said Sunday night marked the third time she has witnessed a shooting at a Mardi Gras parade. She described the scene as "mass chaos." City districts hold dozens of parades and street parties, which ramp up in the two weeks leading up to Mardi Gras. Mardi Gras, held the day before Ash Wednesday, is traditionally a debaucherous prelude to Lent, the six-week long religious fast leading up to Easter. One man was killed and four others were injured when a gunman started shooting near the St. Charles Avenue Carnival parade route in New Orleans on Sunday.The Five people were shot Sunday night during the Krewe of Bacchus parade on the busiest weekend of the Mardi Gras season, New Orleans police said.. One of the victims died overnight. The shooting More than a dozen shots rang out along the route of one of New Orleans most popular Mardi Gras parades on Sunday night, sending families running in terror. A man is in custody after one person was killed and four others -- including a 4-year-old girl -- were injured in a shooting Sunday night along a Mardi Gras parade route ahead of the city's At least one person was killed and four others were injured in a shooting during a parade on Sunday night in the lead up to Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans , the latest in a series of mass Mardi Gras Parade Shooting in New Orleans Kills 1, Wounds 4 Carnival season, which begins Jan. 6, is in its final raucous days in New Orleans heading into Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, the day TDLR: “Five people were shot at a Mardi Gras parade Sunday night and one died, New Orleans police said. One person was detained at the scene in connection with the gunfire. Police said it happened along the route of the Krewe of Bacchus parade.
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