Almost 20 years before the 2013 New Orleans shooting, a baby was nearly beaten to death in an enduring cycle of violence
To many across the US and even around the world who followed its aftermath, the story of the 2013 Mother’s Day shooting in New Orleans – which injured 20 people at one of the city’s vaunted second-line parades – is a simple one.
Siblings who dealt drugs and were locked in a feud over territory indiscriminately fired into a crowd, mortally wounding one local writer and cultural advocate – Deborah “Big Red” Cotton – who died four years later.
