One person is dead and two others injured during a high school graduation ceremony being held on the campus of Xavier University in New Orleans on Tuesday.
According to officials, two woman started fighting in the parking lot of Xavier’s convocation center. That’s when at least one person pulled out a gun and started shooting.
Police say that an elderly woman was killed and two men were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Several guns have been recovered from the scene and at least people have been detained in connection with the shooting.
One witness told local media that the woman who died was the grandmother of one of the graduates.
The shooting comes two weeks after another shooting happened outside the graduation ceremonies for Hammond High School which was held at Southeastern Louisiana University.
NOLA-PS Superintendent Dr. Henderson Lewis Jr. said.,
“I am outraged and saddened by the callousness shown today outside Xavier University. The graduating seniors of Morris Jeff were there to share in their collective achievements and bask in the brightness of their futures – only to have their optimism ripped apart by gun violence. This has got to stop. We must come together as a community, as a country, and address the damage caused by access to guns and to get to the root of the anger and despair that compels individuals to even think of harming others. All our children have a right to be safe and we must do all we can in our power to protect that right. My heart breaks for the families of the victims, and I implore us all to rally around them in their time of need.”
