FRANKLINTON, La. (WVUE) - A shooting following the Pepe Mardi Gras Parade in Franklinton left five people injured Sunday night (March 2), authorities said. One victim remains in critical condition Five people were wounded Sunday in Franklinton, Louisiana, after a shooting at a Mardi Gras parade, according to police. A suspect, 18-year-old Jamerian Anders, was arrested on five counts of Five people were wounded in Franklinton, Louisiana, on Sunday evening after a shooter opened fire during a local Mardi Gras parade. Franklinton, Louisiana - Five people were wounded in Franklinton, Louisiana, on Sunday after a shooter opened fire during a Mardi Gras parade. Five people were wounded Five people were wounded Sunday in Franklinton, Louisiana, after a shooting at a Mardi Gras parade and a suspect was arrested for attempted murder. Read More NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The NOPD is searching for a suspect involved in a triple shooting just feet away from the French Quarter as the city wrapped up its Mardi Gras celebrations Tuesday (Feb. 12 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 New Orleans police investigating three people shot near French Quarter after Mardi Gras. Police say the shooting happened at the corner of Royal and Canal Street around 12:20 a.m. 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. In what police are calling "an isolated incident," five people, including a 4-year-old girl, were shot near a parade in New Orleans on Sunday during the lead-up to Mardi Gras. The shooting, along The shooting took place at about 9:30 p.m. near St. Charles Avenue and Terpischore Street. Police said that parade was temporarily halted but later resumed “to get out of the way” of the crime scene, although participants did not throw anything from the parade’s floats in that area. “This is not something we wanted to see. Five people were wounded Sunday in Franklinton, Louisiana, after a shooting at a Mardi Gras parade, according to police. A suspect, 18-year-old Jamerian Anders, was arrested on five counts of Mardi Gras comes to a close on Tuesday night, and soon, those who celebrate will exclaim “Laissez les bons temps rouler,” or “Let the good times roll” for the last time this Carnival season. The FBI is investigating the attack in New Orleans as an “act of terrorism” and have identified the suspect who rammed a pickup truck into a crowd during New Year’s celebrations. Five people were shot, including a young girl, Sunday night during the Krewe of Bacchus parade in New Orleans, according to the New Orleans Police Department 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. The shooting happened around 9:30 p.m. on St Revelers were undeterred by violence that marred a glitzy weekend parade in a shooting that left a teenager dead and four other people injured, including a 4-year-old girl. “Things happen GRAY, La. (WVUE) - A man and woman were “viciously gunned down” Friday (Feb. 2) following a Carnival parade in Houma, according to the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff’s Office. The shooting happened around 9:30 p.m. on St. Charles Avenue near Terpsichore Street. Mass shooting at Bacchus Mardi Gras parade leaves 1 dead, 4 hospitalized: What to know Five thousand people took part in the second Gay Mardi Gras on a bitterly cold Saturday night of 30th June 1979 – and there were no arrests. Without the police attack on the first Mardi Gras, there may not have been a second one. The second Mardi Gras in 1979 was accompanied by a fair, film festival and street march. Since the late 1960s, the Krewe of Bacchus procession has been a staple of the Mardi Gras schedule. According to its website, the crew has more than 1,500 members and 33 animated super-floats. The Sunday evening procession had began at 5 p.m. and was approaching its conclusion when the shooting happened.
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