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Police investigating in Orleans park when a crowd of over 300 had gathered in Bunny Field Park for the making of a music video and shots were fired. |
At least
16 people have been wounded in a gunfire at a park in New Orleans, in the US
state of Louisiana, where a crowd of more than 300 had gather round for
the making of a music video, local police say.
The gunfire took place
around 7pm local time on Sunday (01:00 GMT on Monday) in Bunny Friend Park in
the city's Upper Ninth Ward.
In a statement, the New
Orleans police said witnesses told police that both groups involved in the gunfire
ran off immediately after the gunfire.
The Times-Picayune
newspaper quoted New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) Superintendent Michael
Harrison saying he believed multiple people had fired into the crowd.
At least
nine victims were transported to University Medical Center New Orleans, a
hospital spokesperson told NBC News.
Three witnesses told the
Times-Picayune they saw a man with a silver-colored machine gun, and also heard
more gunshots coming from within the crowd as he ran away.
Several people were
lying on the sidewalk after the gunfire, it said.
Tyler Gamble, NOPD
spokesperson, told the New York Times newspaper that police learned from
witnesses that "there were two groups that were firing shots back and
forth at each other, and then ran off after each other on foot".
WVUE TV said police
believed the gunfire stanched from a fight.
Media reports put the
number of victims at 10 to 16 and said they had been taken to local hospitals.
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