Just before 9 a.m. on Monday, July 31, the first of a series of gunshots echoed through the halls of Gretna Middle School. Not long after, the first of many
The drill was part of a scripted mass casualty exercise, or mock-shooting, held at the school where about 200 people from about 20 organizations participated.
A Jefferson Parish judge sentenced a Gretna man to serve 35 years in prison after he admitted raping and impregnating a 12-year-old girl, according to authorities.