New Orleans shooting

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Police had already increased patrols in New Orleans’ bustling French Quarter before gunfire erupted early Sunday, leaving one man dead and nine other people wounded in a tourist district famed for its bars, bright lights and live music. Extra uniformed and plainclothes officers were on duty and ambulance crews were on […]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Police on Monday sought to determine what touched off a wild shootout in a crowd of hundreds of people at a New Orleans playground, where an evening of fun at a block party swiftly turned into a nightmare. The shootout, combined with the recent shooting of a good Samaritan who tried […]

  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The latest on the shootout at a playground in New Orleans’ 9th Ward (all times local): 11:10 a.m. New Orleans police say investigators are still trying to learn who pulled out guns and why they started shooting in a playground crowded with hundreds of people. Spokesman Frank Robertson said Monday […]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans police were investigating a drive-by shooting Monday that killed a man and an 18-year-old woman and wounded five other people, three of them children. The shooting happened around 8 p.m. Sunday in the city’s Lower 9th Ward, a neighborhood that was ravaged by Hurricane Katrina and has struggled with […]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Two brothers with a history of drug arrests and suspected ties to a neighborhood gang each face 20 counts of attempted second-degree murder in a shooting spree that brought a sudden bloody end to a Mother’s Day parade in a New Orleans neighborhood. The arrests by city police and U.S. marshals […]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Authorities have arrested the suspect wanted in a Mother’s Day parade shooting that wounded 19 people in New Orleans, police said. Akein Scott, 19, was arrested Wednesday night in the Little Woods section of eastern New Orleans, police department spokeswoman Remi Braden said. She said no additional details were available and […]

Roland Martin talks with New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu about the Mother’s Day Parade Shooting, gun and gang violence and what needs to be done to decrease violence in the streets.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans police and federal authorities were searching early Tuesday for a young man who is suspected of opening fire at a Mother’s Day parade in New Orleans, wounding 19. Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas identified the suspect late Monday as Akein Scott, 19, of New Orleans. Referring to blurry surveillance camera […]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans police hope a $10,000 reward and blurry surveillance camera images will lead to arrests in a Mother’s Day shooting that wounded 19 people and showed again how far the city has to go to shake a persistent culture of violence that belies the city’s festive image. Video released early […]