Woman tells WBRZ she and her child hid in a Coke trailer during the Christmas parade chaos

BATON ROUGE – What was supposed to be an event filled with Christmas joy for all ages in downtown Baton Rouge quickly turned to chaos when gunfire rang out. “It wasn’t real, at the moment that it happened,” said Gayle James who attended the parade. “This was like a family, we were there to see the parade. You know, it was Christmas, that just goes to show it doesn’t matter.”

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