5 Shot on Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. in New Orleans on MLK Jr. Day
By: NBC News
Updated: January 22, 2013
Five people standing outside a grocery store on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in New Orleans were wounded in a drive-by shooting on Monday, police said.
None of the injuries was considered life-threatening, officials said.
The incident took place at the intersection of LaSalle Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, police said.
Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas, who was among those who responded to the scene, told NBC station WDSU that six teenage boys or young men were outside a small grocery when a late-model white sedan drove past, with shots fired from inside the car.
The car then sped off.
A New Orleans Police Department official told the station that a surveillance camera captured the incident and that video recordings were being reviewed.
The violence happened shortly after New Orleans' annual parade honoring slain civil rights activist and nonviolence standard-bearer Martin Luther King Jr. passed through the neighborhood.
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