The New Orleans Mother's Day shootings of 2013 ?*one year later
 

One year ago on Mother?s Day, a jubilant group of New Orleanians was second-lining behind the Original Big 7 Social Aid & Pleasure Club at the club?s annual Mother?s Day procession in the Seventh Ward. About 1:45 p.m. on May 12, as the bands and marchers reached the corner of Frenchmen and North Villere streets, a fusillade of gunfire strafed the peaceful crowd.? [ Read more ]

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