Wounded in New Orleans Mass Shooting

Seventeen bystanders were hospitalized.

Mayor Mitch Landrieu, speaking at a news conference, called on people who were in the park to come forward with information. Police said neither event had a permit.

The incident occurred as people were shooting an impromptu music video, WWL reports.

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Calling it an “unbelievably senseless shooting” that is “akin to domestic terrorism”, Landrieu said that one of the victims may be paralyzed for life and another was 10 years old; most had already been released from the hospital.

Her husband, Pastor Davey Blackburn, told police he had left the home’s front door unlocked when he departed about 6 a.m. that morning to go to the gym and work out and returned home about 8:20 a.m.to find his wounded wife. The two rushed to the hospital to check on the 14-year-old, who had been shot three times in the leg. Hayney pulled her daughter out of the truck and under it to hide, then moved to a nearby ditch.

Police were on their way to break up a big crowd there when gunfire broke out at the park in the city’s Ninth Ward, police said in a statement.

“I saw the police coming, and I ran over to them”, she said.

NOPD Superintendent Michael Harrison said did not say if any suspects had been developed but had some clues as to the nature of the violence.

Hundreds of people were gathered late Sunday for what police have described as a combination block party and music video shoot.

Harrison told WDSU-TV that the shooting might have been gang-related.

New Orleans officials have touted an overall drop in crime this year over last year.

“No one feels safe”, said Peter Scharf, a Louisiana State University professor at the School of Public Health who studies crime. But Landrieu has said that is the result of hard choices made after he inherited an $80 million budget deficit in 2010.