New Orleans Mother's Day attack: Teenager arrested

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

Police in the US city of New Orleans have arrested a teenager over the shootings at a Mother's Day parade that injured 19, including two children.

Akein Scott, 19, was taken into custody on Wednesday night, police said. He is said to have been identified from CCTV footage of the attack.

The charges against him have yet to be released.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22555758

[marshall]

1. It's heartbreaking that we have to turn to British news sources to get our own news

Such is the world we live in, with the do nothing media that we have.

[metalbot]

2. This isn't really a good example of that

NBC had this posted 9 hours ago, and BBC picked it up an hour ago

[swayne]

3. GOOD. GET' EM ALL.

This sh*t has got to stop. Where is the NRA on this kind of violence? Surely, they aren't fighting for right for thugs (especially black ones) with guns on the street?

What good would everyone having guns have done with that situation? It would have been worse...

[Lasher]

4. Two of them arrested now

Brothers arrested in Mother's Day parade shooting

Akein Scott, 19, was arrested without incident late Wednesday at an eastern New Orleans residence. His brother Shawn Scott, 24, was arrested Thursday morning as he tried to flee another residence in the city, police said.

http://news.yahoo.com/brothers-arrested-mothers-day-parade-shooting-213807064.html

Gang violence.

[Ash_F]

5. Black men = Gang violence?

I realize they are allegedly members of a gang, but even if true, what does randomly shooting up a parade have to do with gang activities? What does this gang have against people celebrating Mother's day? Sounds like an ass-pull regarding the motive from the police.

[Adsos Letter]

6. Are any of the victims gang bangers?

I'm just asking. I don't know if any were, but one or more of them might have been a target.

Total speculation on my part.

[Ash_F]

7. I don't know. I think it's probably unlikely.

Given the number of people shot, it doesn't sound like he targeted anyone in particular. It sounds like he was shooting at anyone he could.

I'm not saying it's impossible that it is gang related, I just think it's cute they jumped to that immediately. I have a feeling if he was white, they would not have gone there. They would either not comment on a motive or be talking about his psychological issues.

[Lasher]

8. They were targeting Leonard Epps, a 35 year old gang member from the Lower 9th Ward.

Epps suffered multiple gunshot wounds to his upper torso from the attack.

Mother's Day shooting suspects have ties to 7th Ward gang, police say

[Ash_F]

10. If true, I'm not sure what's more callous

Randomly shooting 19 people or aiming for one and somehow hitting 18 others.

[Freddie Stubbs]

12. Isn't 35 a little old for that sh*t?

[hack89]

13. They were specifically targeting one man from a rival gang

it was not random - they just didn't care about the collateral damage.

The second suspect arrested was identified as Shawn Scott, brother of Akein Scott, who was arrested Wednesday night and charged with 20 counts of attempted murder. Authorities said the Scott brothers are members of the Frenchman and Derbigny gang and that the target of the attack was Leonard Epps, 35, who suffered multiple gunshot wounds to his upper torso. Police said Epps is in a gang know as the Deslonde Boys, based in the lower 9th Ward.

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2013/05/mothers_day_shootings_arrest_d.html#incart_maj-story-2

[freshwest]

9. Oregon live has this report:

Akein Scott, 19, was arrested in the Little Woods section of eastern New Orleans, police department spokeswoman Remi Braden said. She said no additional details were available and would not be until Thursday morning.

An earlier police news release said Scott had previously been arrested for illegal carrying of a weapon, illegal possession of a stolen firearm, resisting an officer, contraband to jail, illegal carrying of a weapon while in possession of a controlled dangerous substance and possession of heroin.

It was not immediately clear whether Scott, who was arrested this past March, had been convicted on any of those charges.

Video released Monday showed a crowd gathered for the Sunday parade suddenly scattering in all directions, with some falling to the ground. They appear to be running from a man in a white T-shirt and dark pants who turns and runs out of the picture.

http://www.oregonlive.com/today/index.ssf/2013/05/police_suspect_arrested_in_new.html

This doesn't make sense at all. It says it's gang related, but the kids and others can't have had anything to do with that, IMO.

[Pterodactyl]

11. Wacko gun nut.

[hack89]

14. No - criminal gang banger. nt

[Pterodactyl]

15. Is there a difference?

[hack89]

16. As long as you think "wacko gun nuts" are a tiny percentage of gun owners. nt

[Pterodactyl]

17. Yeah, just the ones who shoot people for fun. Thankfully not many of them.

[hack89]

18. A tiny percentage of them. nt