Normally there are shootings at the Welcome Home, You Made Parole Party.
Police on Wednesday arrested a teenager accused of opening fire into a crowd at a Gentilly graduation party over the weekend, killing a 15-year-old boy and wounding seven others.
Zachary Gibson, 19, sprayed bullets into a crowd of at least 150 people gathered to celebrate a high school graduation, New Orleans police say. The boy who died, Tremaine Robertson, 15, was the brother of the graduate being feted.
Police said the shooting followed an argument at the party.
Several witnesses told police the gunman was wearing a red short-sleeved T-shirt and ran away from the scene, according to a New Orleans Police Department arrest warrant. During the investigation, NOPD homicide Detective Barret Morton said he found photographs of Gibson at the party wearing a red short-sleeved T-shirt, the warrant says.
An unidentified witness identified Gibson in a photographic lineup, Morton wrote.
The gunfire erupted shortly before midnight Friday (May 23), at a single-family house in the 6200 block of Eads Street during a party for JeShan Vail, 18, who just graduated from George Washington Carver High School. He said Robertson was an “innocent bystander.”
Robertson was visiting from Spring, Texas, where his family moved to after Hurricane Katrina. Part of the reason his family stayed away was due to Robertson’s mother’s concerns about crime in New Orleans, Vail told a reporter on Saturday.