New Orleans police have arrested two teenagers accused of opening fire on a 31-year-old woman and her 7-year-old daughter as they walked in a neighborhood with a man thought to be the target.
A third suspect remains at large.
Officer Frank Robertson, a police spokesman, says 19-year-old Cornell Williams and 18-year-old Shannon Cooks were arrested early Friday on two counts of attempted second-degree murder and one count of aggravated assault.
Bullets struck the woman in the stomach and both legs and her daughter was hit in the cheek before they both collapsed around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday. The woman and child are in stable condition at an area hospital.
Robertson told The Times-Picayune the man who police say was the target of the shooting escaped unharmed.
