Baby shot at Fat Tuesday parade
Posted February 25th, 2009 by minortopics | via news.yahoo.comAn infant along with 5 other people were shot in a barrage of gunfire that took place during the Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans.
“It sounded like a string of fireworks, so I knew it was more than one shooter,” said Toni Labat, 29, a limousine company manager. She was with her two children, a 2-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl.
“Everybody was petrified. They hit the ground, the floats stopped, everybody on the floats ducked,” Labat said.
Labat said one man dragged himself on the ground screaming for help after being wounded and another man was gasping for air and bleeding from his mouth.
Police spokesman Bob Young said the victims were taken to local hospitals. The conditions of all the victims were not immediately available, but Young said the infant was grazed by a bullet and not seriously hurt.
