Festival shooting a result of warring gangs

Published June 26, 2011 4:00am ET



The shootout near the parade route of Saturday’s Caribbean Carnival that left one person dead and three others wounded was connected to a shooting that killed an innocent bystander earlier this year, police sources said. Police sources say the intended target was a teenage gang member who was the victim of an assassination attempt in February. That shooting instead killed 17-year-old Cardozo High School student Lucki Pannell.

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