NEW ORLEANS — Cell phone video from inside an office building shows what happened down below on Delachaise and Prytania Streets in uptown New Orleans Monday afternoon.
“We heard a bunch of loud noises and we went into the bedroom and we ducked down and then it paused for a bit and then we heard a few more,” said Anson Dana, who is vacationing in New Orleans with his family.
Those noises 16-year-old Dana and his 14-year-old sister Evan heard right outside their Airbnb were gunshots. That cell phone video shows what appears to be two men firing those shots, right across the street from Touro Infirmary.
“My dad got up and saw the shooter standing by the gas station pointing his gun,” Anson Dana said.
Eventually one of the two men in the video appears to be arrested. The other runs away. When it was over, a car crashed onto the sidewalk and New Orleans Police say one person was taken to the hospital with a graze wound.
“We thought it was fireworks but then we realized, when our parents came in and told us to get on the ground, we realized it was serious,” Anson Dana said.
Eyewitness News was there when an officer pulled a gun out of a nearby storm drain, where witnesses say one of the shooters threw it.
It took police more than three hours to process the scene. With as many as 18 evidence markers, witnesses say it was surreal.
“At first, I didn’t process it until my parents came in the room telling us to lay on the ground and then it kind of hit me. It all happened so fast,” said Evan Dana.
Visiting from Houston with their family, Anson and Evan’s first trip to New Orleans will be memorable.
“We did not expect this on vacation for sure,” said Evan Dana. “It was a little bit scary.”
A scary situation that as of Monday evening, New Orleans police were still trying piece together.
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