‘During the course of the investigation it has been learned the subject is the son of an NOPD Officer.’ Two people were killed and…
‘During the course of the investigation it has been learned the subject is the son of an NOPD Officer.’
Two people were killed and as many as nine were injured in New Orleans following an alleged incident of vehicular homicide near a Mardi Gras parade, The New Orleans Times Picayune is reporting.
The incident happened away from the French Quarter and most of the other Mardi Gras action, in a residential neighborhood a few blocks away. Most of the victims were riding bicycles when an out-of-control car, allegedly driven by Tashonty Toney, slammed into several people and then spun out onto a median strip. Witnesses say that the driver then staggered a few feet away from the scene of the crime, asking if he had “killed anybody,” before losing consciousness.
New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Shaun Ferguson said via NBC News that concerned citizens kept the driver from driving away, at first believing that he, too, had been injured and needed medical help.
