16 hospitalized in New Orleans stadium shooting

At slightest 16 people were hospitalized in New Orleans Sunday evening, following a sharpened during a celebration during a city park

The victims were all in fast condition.

The sharpened pennyless out during Bunny Friend Park in a Upper Ninth Ward where about 500 people were collected during a stadium for a unpretentious sharpened of a song video, officials said. According to officials, a gun conflict took place during a site.

“At a finish of a day it’s unequivocally tough to military opposite a garland of guys who confirm to lift out guns and settle disputes with 300 people between them,” Mayor Mitch Landrieu pronounced during a press discussion after that evening.

The sharpened followed a second line impetus by a Nine Times Social Pleasure Club that had happened progressing a retard or dual from a sharpened scene, Landrieu said.

Witnesses told WWL-TV that during slightest dual gunmen dismissed into a crowd. Officials are still acid for a suspects.

City military officers had been monitoring a second line, though witnesses pronounced they were commencement to sunder as a after-party kept going, The Times-Picayune

Police orator Tyler Gamble told The Associated Press that military were on their approach to mangle adult a throng when gunfire erupted. He pronounced there were dual groups during a park — those who had walked there in a impetus and those examination or participating in a video. He pronounced it was being done but a permit.

The shooting’s issue was “chaotic,” The Times-Picayune

Several ambulances were reported during a scene, that was cordoned off by police.

According to FrenchQuarter.com, second line parades are “the descendants of a New Orleans’ famous jazz funerals and, detached from a casket, mourners and a tomb visit, they lift many of a same traditions with them as they impetus down a streets.” There are dozens of second line parades scheduled via a year and via a city, customarily on Sunday afternoons, according to a website. They operation in size, turn of classification and traditions.

Each impetus includes a coronet rope and travel dancing by members wearing “brightly colored suits, sashes, hats and bonnets, parasols and banners,” a website said.

Landrieu final Jan pronounced a series of murders in New Orleans final year reached a 43-year low

The Times-Picayune reported that as of Sunday a city’s 2015 murder rate stood during 138

Contributing: WWL-TV, New Orleans; The Associated Press. Follow Greg Toppo on Twitter: @gtoppo

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