By Laura McKnight

ORLANDO, Fla. – A man was fatally wounded and a 17-month-old boy was injured in a quadruple shooting Wednesday night (April 4) on Garden Oaks Drive in Algiers, according to the New Orleans Police Department.

Another man and a 25-year-old woman also were wounded in the shooting, reported in the 3300 block of Garden Oaks Drive.

Update: The second man injured in the shooting also died, the NOPD confirmed Thursday evening (April 5). It was not clear when the second victim was pronounced dead.

Officers called to the shooting about 6:43 p.m. found a man lying in the courtyard of the apartment complex, bleeding “profusely” from a gunshot wound to the back of his head, according to an NOPD report. He was treated at the scene by EMS and then taken to an area hospital.

Police then learned that a second victim, a man with gunshot wounds to his chest, arms and lower abdomen, had arrived at a local hospital via private vehicle. He was pronounced dead Wednesday night, according to the report.

A short time later, officers found out that a woman with a gunshot wound to her left chest area and a toddler with a gunshot wound to his left foot had arrived at a different local hospital, also by private vehicle.

Details on the extent of the injuries to the surviving victims were not available, police said late Wednesday. Police originally reported one victim in the shooting, an adult male.

Three hours later, at 10:15 p.m., the NOPD issued an update including the three other victims, as well as notification that one of the four victims had died of his injuries. In that alert, police said the child injured in the shooting is two years old, but police later said he is 17 months old.

Wednesday night, at least seven police cars were in or near the parking lot of the Garden Oaks Apartments, where a breezeway and a portion of a large courtyard were cordoned off.

Several groups of onlookers had collected in breezeways and on front stoops in the apartments, watching as investigators searched the courtyard area. “This has got to stop,” a woman said.

At one point, a woman with tears on her cheeks rushed over to the breezeway where investigators were gathered–and then rushed toward the taped-off courtyard, followed by a small group of women. The woman could be heard asking about a baby, her voice frantic.

Across the courtyard, a man at the scene said he did not see the shooting, but he heard three bursts of gunfire and then saw the victim on the ground, with blood in his hair.

“All he could do was lay there on the ground,” the man said. Several people at the scene said the shooting may have been sparked by a disagreement related to a dog. “It’s all senseless,” the man said, looking over at the courtyard, divided by yellow police tape.

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