A party at a home in Louisiana was interrupted by gunfire Sunday night. When the shooting stopped, a 12-year-old girl had suffered fatal injuries. A 19-year-old man was hospitalized in critical condition and another person was injured.
The party was categorized by neighbors as a birthday party, but Superintendent Shaun Ferguson, at an afternoon news conference called it a graduation party. Either way, it’s a tragic outcome.
“It’s very sad. It’s very tragic,” said Ferguson. “Our citizens are celebrating an accomplishment, a significant accomplishment – graduation. 12-year-old deceased victim was attending the party when individuals fired.”
The Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office later identified the girl as Todriana Peters.
Ferguson said the investigation was in its early stages and he wasn’t certain if the victim was a resident or was in town visiting for the celebration.
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One person who was at the party said she heard the shots being fired outside and she ran outside and found the girl badly injured. With some medical training she received in the military, she applied a tourniquet on the child’s leg and put pressure on her head until EMS arrived.
“I ran to the little girl and seen there was blood,” said the woman, who did not want to be identified. “I wrapped her up as best as I can. I tried to put pressure on it so she didn’t bleed out. We got more towels, I wrapped her some more.”
A person who lived close to the shooting scene said she came outside after the shooting stopped to find a teenager in her tree, hiding so he wouldn’t get shot.
Another resident who lives nearby said he heard the shots.
“We were barbecuing and heard what sounded like a bunch of fireworks,” he said. “Gunshots is what it ended up being and now I’ve been told that a 12-year-old girl is deceased. It’s a shame.”
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