Katie Moore / Eyewitness News Email: | Twitter: @katiecmoore
NEWORLEANS- The organizer of Sunday's second line parade said
Monday that a great day and a great tradition were both
tarnished when 19 people were shot, including two 10-year-olds,
at it.  The situation had the city's cultural community saddened
and frustrated.  'The shooting starts, everybody's running.
Screaming, hollering,' described Edward Buckner, president of
the Original Big Seven Social Aid and Pleasure Club.  He was the
organizer of Sunday's second line, and has participated in the
annual Mother's Day tradition for more than a decade. Buckner
said nothing like Sunday's shooting has ever happened at the
event.  'I'm still messed up. I'm just really not right, right
now. I'm just...' he said choking back tears.  He was clearly
traumatized after 19 people got shot before his parade even got
going.  Buckner described what the chaotic scene was like at the
intersection of Frenchmen and Villere. After the parade had
paused for a moment at that