(1 Jan 2025)
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New Orleans – 1 January 2025
1. Wide of police tape
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Zion Parsons, witness:
"Like around three, I want to say 3:15, everybody just chilling. We are having a good time. Music playing and all that, 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."
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3. Med of law enforcement officers on scene
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Zion Parsons, witness:
"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."
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5. Med of police vehicles on scene
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Zion Parsons, witness:
"This is my first time being in the Bourbon, Insane first experience. I’ll never come back like you won’t ever see me again. It was just, it was insane, man. Like, real, closest thing to a war zone I’ve ever seen, truly."
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Zion Parsons, witness:
"I was just I was lucky to be alive. I’m lucky to be alive right now."
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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.
The FBI is investigating the attack as an act of terrorism and said it does not believe the driver acted alone.
An Islamic State group flag was found on the vehicle’s trailer hitch, the FBI said.
Gulfport, Mississippi resident Zion Parsons, 18, had been celebrating New Year’s Eve at his first night on Bourbon Street when the vehicle appeared.
"A truck hit the corner and comes barreling through throwing people like in a movie scene, throwing people into the air," he said.
He watched the vehicle plow into his friend, 18-year-old Nikyra Dedeaux, who he said had dreamed of becoming a nurse.
"It hit her and flung her like at least 30 feet and I was just lucky to be alive," Parsons said.
As the crowd scattered in the chaos he ran through a gruesome aftermath of bleeding and maimed victims, hearing gunshots and explosive sounds.
"Bodies, bodies all up and down the street, everybody screaming and hollering" Parsons said. "It was just insane, like the closest thing to a war zone that I’ve ever seen."
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