An infant girl suffered a gunshot wound in an overnight shooting that left her and her mother wounded. The violence took place in New Orleans East on Dwyer Boulevard near Basinview Drive just after one o'clock in the morning.
According to New Orleans Police, the family of the victim heard the gunshots ring out.
"Victims were inside their residence sleeping when they heard approximately 30 gunshots."
Afterward they found the mother and her baby daughter both wounded from gunshots.
The 41-year-old mother had a bullet lodged in her leg, the baby suffered a gunshot wound to the foot.
Both were driven to a hospital.





