A band member was hit within the head by a stray bullet whereas acting on a Louisiana stage, police stated.
Round 8:30 p.m. on Could 13, Houma Police responded to experiences of gunshots, in keeping with a information launch.
Once they arrived on the reported intersection, they didn’t discover a shooter or a sufferer, however officers did see spent shell casings on the bottom, police stated.
Simply 10 minutes later, they had been referred to as once more with experiences of somebody with a gunshot wound to the top — solely a couple of mile away.
The officers traveled to the downtown park the place the Josh Garrett Band had been performing, in keeping with a Fb submit.
The band’s bass participant had been hit with an “unknown object” whereas the band was performing dwell, police stated. They later found that he had been hit by a bullet.
Police consider the bullet was a stray from the sooner capturing that fell out of the sky and down onto the band, hitting the bass participant within the head.
“Falling bullet struck our bass participant,” Josh Garrett Band commented on a Fb submit from one other native band. “The bullet remains to be in his head, however he’s gonna be okay – Very grateful.”
Police stated the bass participant was recovering from the gunshot wound which was discovered to be non-life threatening.
One of many concertgoers described the confusion throughout the present.
“They made an announcement that the present was over as a result of somebody (threw) both a bottle or rock from throughout the bayou, hitting the bass participant within the head,” the individual wrote on the Fb submit. “We discovered the following morning what actually occurred. That bullet traveled from 9 blocks away.”
Police stated the investigation was within the “toddler levels” and extra info could be launched because the investigation developed.
Houma is about 55 miles southwest of New Orleans.
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