Six people were injured in a mass shootout at a child’s birthday party in Louisiana – including a 12-year-old man.
An argument sparked the late Saturday night shootout at LaPlace, According to St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff’s Office.
There was no lethal attack on Sunday and no arrests were made.
Investigators believe there were two groups of young people involved in the brawl at the party before the mass shootings, but the witnesses were not accomplices, Sheriff Mike Tregre Told NOLA.com.
“We don’t have a witness, not a person who hasn’t seen anything yet,” Tregrae said. “I’m going to be polite – it’s more than a disappointment.”
Evidence shows that according to the report, more than one gun was fired. One victim was 12 years old and several had “superficial” injuries, Tregrae said, but none of the wounds were considered life-threatening.
However, three people needed surgery, the sheriff said.
“We will not stop,” Tregre told the outlet, vowing to make the arrests. “We are going to continue on this. Come forward to someone. It just can’t go on like this. “
A neighbor who responded to the scene of the shooting by paramedics said that all the victims were children.
“Everyone took me in an ambulance – they were all children,” Rashad Bolden Told WWL-TV. “I looked out of my window and saw a whole bunch of people, so that I came out.”
Bolden said someone shot in a “garage full of children” during the incident.
“You want to call it heartless, but you know that they are not old enough to know what is heartless,” he told the station.
A message seeking comment from sheriff officials early Monday was not immediately returned.
Anyone with additional information on the shooting is asked to call CrimeStoppers at (877) 903-7867.
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