NEW ORLEANS - An infant and at least four other people were shot Tuesday along a parade route packed with <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1235510999_0">Mardi Gras revelers</span>, police said. Two suspects were in custody and the victims were recovering. The shootings happened near the Garden District about 1:40 p.m. after the last major parade of the celebration, Rex, had ended. Truck floats that follow the parade were passing when gunfire broke out.
Beau Beals, 45, said he was outside a house party on St. Charles Avenue when the shooting erupted. He said and other partiers tossed children over a metal fence to get them to safety, but others kept waiting for beads and other trinkets being tossed from the floats as if nothing had happened.</p>
"They had an ambulance out here picking the guy up off the street and people didn't stop vying for throws," Beals said.</p>