‘You destroyed my family’: Mothers of teens killed in 2023 mass shooting react to sentencing

NEW ORLEANS — More than three years after an early-morning holiday shooting in New Orleans left two teenagers dead and six others injured, the mothers of the victims say the pain has not gone away — even as the case has reached a legal conclusion.

“I don’t know what normal is anymore,” said Dericka Gibson, the mother of 19-year-old victim Courtney Hughes.

For Earsel Peters, the grief of losing her 19-year-old son Kyron is still unimaginable…

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