Authorities have arrested a suspect in the shooting at a busy Mid-City intersection Friday night that killed a teenager and left five others wounded, the New Orleans Police Department said Tuesday.

Dijon Dixon, 18, faces a count of second-degree murder in the slaying of 17-year-old Cornelius “Mickey” Smith. He could also be accused of five counts of attempted murder.

Police didn't say how they linked Dixon to the deadly shooting. But NOPD Superintendent Shaun Ferguson said investigators had "worked around the clock to gather overwhelming evidence" tying Dixon to "this senseless act of violence."

A law enforcement source said at least one eyewitness identification implicated Dixon in the case.

The NOPD worked with the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office to arrest Dixon in St. Bernard on Monday afternoon, and on Tuesday he was awaiting transfer to the New Orleans jail.

According to police, Smith was in a group riding in a car on City Park Avenue near Canal Boulevard when a vehicle that was tailing them pulled up close. Someone in the other car then started shooting at Smith and his companions.

Smith was hit and died at the scene. The other victims — all males between the ages of 15 and 21 — were wounded.

Smith was a student at International High School of New Orleans and had plans to attend college. The school brought in grief counselors to help his classmates cope with his death.

At least one of the wounded victims was a student at Booker T. Washington High School, which had played a football game earlier in the evening at nearby Pan American Stadium.

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Smith died at the start of a particularly violent weekend in New Orleans. Between Friday night and Monday afternoon, at least 17 people were shot in eight separate incidents.

Ferguson on Tuesday made it a point to note that murders in New Orleans so far this year were down 28 percent compared to the same day in 2018, when the city posted its lowest number of killings since 1971.

At least one of the other weekend incidents, a gun battle in Bywater that left several people injured, has resulted in arrests. David Brown and Jerry Bridges Jr., both 35, face counts of attempted murder and illegal weapon possession in connection with a shootout Saturday morning at St. Claude and Poland avenues.

Note: This post was updated since it was first published.