Witness recalls New Year’s tragedy in New Orleans, mourns loss of friend

(1 Jan 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

++EDIT BEGINS AND ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++
++SOUNDBITES SEPARATED BY BLACK FRAMES++

ASSOCIATED PRESS
New Orleans – 1 January 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Zion Parsons, witness:
"Like around three, I want to say 3:15, 3:15. Everybody just chilling. We are having a good time. Music playing and all that. A truck, I didn’t know it was a Ford F-150. I thought it was like a Yukon or something, a truck hits the corner and comes barreling through people, throwing people like like a movie scene, like real life throwing people into the air. They falling under the car, all that. And so a good friend of mine actually passed away from getting hit by it. And you know the little divots in the wall, just like this? So this is what a lot of people jumped in to, to get away from the truck. But yeah, so after it gets passed us, the guy, I didn’t know was a terrorist, but the guy ends up getting out and shooting people, like he had ARs and bombs and all that, man. But the aftermath was really what got me, like bodies, bodies all up and down the street. Everybody screaming and hollering. You look down, you see somebody doing CPR, you look around people crying on the floor, like brains matter all over the ground. And yeah, it really hurt me to see like one of my closest friends like that, so."
++BLACK FRAMES++
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Zion Parsons, witness:
"We ran one way, so like about five feet away from the curb and we ran into the bar to be protected by this, by the little divot. And I’m supposing, I could have sworn she was behind me. But now that I’m doing the math, it seemed like she ran a different direction. But I was assuming she was behind me. So when I ran into there, her cousin was also with me. Her best friend was also with me. So I saw her and I’m moving people out of the way to try and find her because she’s quite, like quite small. So I moved people out away to try to find her. I’m saying , like no, no, where is she. And I turned my head and it’s just it’s her in the street just leaking blood. And I knew. She looked peaceful though. And I’m glad she went peacefully, you know."
++BLACK FRAMES++
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Zion Parsons, witness:
"She was about to go to college actually in about two weeks, about to go to college. She works at a hospital, making good money right now. But she want to be RN, travel nurse."
++BLACK FRAMES++
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Zion Parsons, witness:
"So we were at the bar, the Desire’s, and hit her and flung her like at least 30 feet, at least 30 feet. Yeah, man, I was just I was lucky to be alive. I’m lucky to be alive right now."
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Zion Parsons, witness:
"This is my first time being in the Bourbon, by the way. So like insane first experience. I’ll never come back like you won’t ever see me again. But I think it was Desire’s or some along right across from Voodoo Chicken. So now we were right across from there. And then everything started to unfold. It was just, It was insane, man. Like, real, closest thing to a war zone I’ve ever seen, truly."
++EDIT ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++
STORYLINE:
A driver wrought carnage on New Orleans’ famed French Quarter early on New Year’s Day, killing 10 people as he steered around a police blockade and rammed a pickup truck into a crowd before being shot to death by police, authorities said.

More than 30 people were injured as the attack around 3:15 a.m. Wednesday turned festive Bourbon Street into macabre mayhem and led to a one-day postponement of a college football playoff game that drew tens of thousands of fans to the city.

Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives ​​
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/

You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/48c4294c81304fddafc21f4a5aef5fa6

Author: AP Archive
Go to Source

News post in January 7, 2025, 12:04 am.

Visit Our Sponsor’s:
News Post In – News

Renegade_Rcih
Greetings I'm Renegade Rich, I own lots of websites and domain names. one of my favorite news type of sites are news sites. So I own lots of news sites and news domain names. My lates is https://news.post.in 😁