New Orleans Mother's Day Parade Shooter Makes Court Appearance, Bond Set at $10 Million

One of the shooters responsible for shooting 20 people during a Mother's Day parade in New Orleans made his first court appearance, receiving a bond set at $10 million.

Witnesses that attended the parade, called a "second line," by the area's locals, identified Akein Scott, 19, from a lineup. They said they saw him carrying a silver and black semi-automatic handgun at the scene, reported the Washington Post.

Scott can be seen in a surveillance video from the parade opening fire into a crowd of about 200 people. Twenty were either hit or grazed, including two children, a 10-year-old boy and girl.

Judge Gerard Hansen appointed Scott a $10 million bail price-$500,000 on each of the 20 counts for which he is currently on trial.

Initial reports said that 19 were wounded at the parade, but prosecutors informed the judge that the number had risen since.

Scott was found and arrested late Wednesday night after a three day-long search in the Little Woods area of New Orleans. He had a criminal record for gun and drug possession, and was out on bond when he participated in the shooting on Mother's Day.

Residents in east New Orleans' Seventh Ward awoke Thursday to news that the shooter had been identified and caught.

Courtney Moles, who lives right by North Villere and Frenchmen streets where the shooting occurred, said that the attack was "personal."

"He wasn't going to that second line to make national news," she told the Washington Post. "He was probably settling some kind of score. His life is over now, too."

Police have been on the hunt for the shooter since Monday, when the surveillance video at the second line showed a man in a white T-shirt and dark pants shoot a round into the crowd, then turn around and run off.

Immediately following the shooting on Sunday, local police said that more than one gun was shot at the parade, suggesting there might have been an accomplice to the crime. This claim, however, has not yet been verified.

* This article has been updated to note a change.