Police question witnesses in Mississippi Mardi Gras shooting

Brian Wileman and several friends heard the shots from about a block away while they visited at a friend’s home on Handy Lane off Davis Avenue just south of the crime scene.

Two people were killed and four others were wounded in a shooting at a parade in the USA state of Mississippi, Sputnik reported with the reference to the local media.

This story has been corrected to show that the city’s name is Pass Christian, not Pass Christina. The victims’ hometowns are near Pass Christian on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast.

Authorities had estimated some 50,000 people had turned out for the afternoon Mardi Gras parade.

The bodies, covered in yellow sheets, were near her mother’s steps.

Police responding to calls about a fight described arriving at a scene of chaos, according to the report. “At first I thought it was fireworks, but we shoot guns, so I wondered if it was gunshots”.

Later Sunday, shots rang out along the Bacchus parade route in New Orleans, although no one was injured, police said. Robertson said officers found a handgun but a suspect or suspects escaped into the crowd.

Police are questioning witnesses to a shooting that broke out after a Mardi Gras parade in MS, leaving two men dead and injuring four others.

Police say aggressive patrols have led to multiple arrests and nine gun confiscations along Mardi Gras parade routes so far this year.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, EMS spokesman Mike Chustz told The Advocate that a float also hit a pedestrian during the Spanish Town parade. Cpl. We do know that some of the shooting victims were taken to Memorial Hospital at Gulfport.