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<p>NEW ORLEANS &#8212; A suspect is in custody after 28 people were injured Saturday when a vehicle plowed into a crowd watching the Krewe of Endymion parade in the Mid-City section of New Orleans, police said.</p><p>Police Chief Michael Harrison said the suspect is being investigated for driving while intoxicated. Harrison was asked twice by the media if terrorism was suspected. While he didn&#8217;t say &#8220;No&#8221; he did say it looks like a case of DWI.</p><p>&#8220;We suspect that that subject was highly intoxicated,&#8221; he said.</p><p>Twenty-one people were hospitalized after the crash with five victims in guarded condition. Seven others declined to be hospitalized, city Emergency Services Director, Dr. Jeff Selder said.</p><p>The victims range in age from as young as 3 or 4-years-old to adults in their 30s and 40s, said Selder.</p><p>Among the injured was one New Orleans police officer. Harrison said the officer, who was on duty, was undergoing tests to determine the extent of her injuries. She was in &#8220;good spirits,&#8221; he said.</p><p>The accident came during one of the busiest nights of Mardi Gras when thousands of people throng the streets of Mid-City to watch the elaborate floats and clamor to catch beads and trinkets tossed from riders. As police and city officials were assessing the accident scene, people were streaming home as plastic bags that used to hold trinkets and discarded beads littered the ground. The area where the accident occurred was cordoned off with police barricades.</p><p>One woman at the scene told The New Orleans Advocate (http://bit.ly/2miOHGP) that a silver truck whisked by her just feet away as she was walking through the intersection.</p><p>Carrie Kinsella said, &#8220;I felt a rush it was so fast.&#8221;</p><p>Twenty-year-old Kourtney McKinnis told the Advocate that the driver of the truck seemed almost unaware of what he had just done.</p><p>&#8220;He was just kind of out of it,&#8221; she said.</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">Police stand next to a pickup truck that slammed into a crowd and other vehicles, causing multiple injuries, coming to a stop against a dump truck, during the Krewe of Endymion parade in New Orleans on Saturday. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/web1_115249384-cfae7aa18b6549588d219f3dfdd332c9.jpg</photo0><caption0>Police stand next to a pickup truck that slammed into a crowd and other vehicles, causing multiple injuries, coming to a stop against a dump truck, during the Krewe of Endymion parade in New Orleans on Saturday. </caption0><photoCredit0></photoCredit0></div><div class="neFile"><img class="neImage" src="https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/web1_115249384-ca53f95b8cff4538a4157f39779b0b77.jpg">
<div class="neCaption">Police talk to a man sitting in a car that was struck by a pickup truck, that slammed into a crowd and other vehicles, causing multiple injuries, during the Krewe of Endymion parade in New Orleans on Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo1>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/web1_115249384-ca53f95b8cff4538a4157f39779b0b77.jpg</photo1><caption1>Police talk to a man sitting in a car that was struck by a pickup truck, that slammed into a crowd and other vehicles, causing multiple injuries, during the Krewe of Endymion parade in New Orleans on Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) </caption1><photoCredit1></photoCredit1></div><div class="neFile"><img class="neImage" src="https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/web1_115249384-1313a1ddf77a4474b10cdcd6795348d5.jpg">
<div class="neCaption">A woman talks on a phone at the scene of where a truck slammed into a crowd and other vehicles, causing multiple injuries, during the Krewe of Endymion parade in New Orleans on Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo2>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/web1_115249384-1313a1ddf77a4474b10cdcd6795348d5.jpg</photo2><caption2>A woman talks on a phone at the scene of where a truck slammed into a crowd and other vehicles, causing multiple injuries, during the Krewe of Endymion parade in New Orleans on Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) </caption2><photoCredit2></photoCredit2></div></div>
<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Rebecca Santana</p><p>Associated Press</p></bylineMeta></div>

Police: Car plows into parade crowd in New Orleans; 28 hurt