Monday 13 May 2013

PHOTOS-Mother's Day Parade horror: Nineteen people are shot in New Orleans as three gunmen open fire in broad daylight during street festivities


Shootings at parades and neighborhood celebrations have become more common in recent years as the city has struggled with street crime. Grief: A grief stricken woman cries after a relative is shot. The shooting was described by the FBI as a flare-up of street violenceThe shooting was described by the FBI as a flare-up of street violence

Gunmen opened fire on people marching in a neighborhood Mother's Day parade in New Orleans on Sunday, wounding at least 19.

The shooting - described by the FBI as a flare-up of street violence - shattered the festive mood surrounding the parade that drew hundreds of people to the 7th Ward neighborhood of modest row houses not far from the French Quarter. 

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