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In addition to the lawlessness, civilian deaths and uncertainty about their
families, New Orleans' police have had to deal with suicides in their ranks. Two
officers took their lives, including the department spokesman, Paul Accardo, who
died Saturday, according to Riley. Both shot themselves in the head, he said.
"I've got some firefighters and police officers that
have been pretty much traumatized," Mayor Ray Nagin said. "And we've already had
a couple of suicides, so I am cycling them out as we speak. ...
The strain was apparent in other ways. Aaron Broussard, president of
Jefferson Parish, dropped his head and cried on NBC's "Meet the Press." "The guy
who runs this building I'm in, emergency management, he's responsible for
everything. His mother was trapped in St. Bernard nursing home, and every day
she called him and said, `Are you coming, son? Is somebody coming?' And he said,
`And yeah, Momma, somebody's coming to get you. Somebody's coming to get you on
Tuesday. Somebody's coming to get you on Wednesday. Somebody's coming to get you
Thursday. Somebody's coming to get you on Friday' _ and she drowned Friday
night. She drowned on Friday night," Broussard said...
A corpse of an elderly man lay wrapped in a child's bedsheet decorated with
the cartoon characters Batman, Robin and the Riddler. The body was in a wooden
cart on Rampart Street, one shoe on, one shoe off.
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