Jeremy Galmon, 2, was sitting a parked car nearby, when one shooter had exchanged gun fire with an occupant of a second vehicle on Dryades near First Street. Galmon died at 3:47 p.m. from a gunshot wound to the face after being taken to the LSU Trauma Center, the shooting happened around 2:30 p.m.
The shooting was on a Central City block that the Young Men Olympian Junior Benevolent Association’s second-line parade had just passed.
‘It was about two blocks away from the second line – there were plenty of police in the area almost immediately after the shooting,’ Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas said.
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