New Orleans Terror Attack Victim Knocked From Wheelchair

New Orleans terror attack survivor was thrown from wheelchair after being hit by truck

I think I got hit and my body was just Thrown onto the ground, and I just, for like *** second, I don’t remember that, that moment. But as soon as I hit the ground, I think I came right back awake. The first thing I remember when I, when I hit the ground were the gunshots. And as soon as, as soon as I heard the gunshots, I, I was thinking in my head. That I would hope I was clear from the gunshots, and I thought that’s kind of why I was on the ground. In my head I thought, well, maybe I’m on the ground because of the people were shooting and I was on the ground to get away from it. So did you, you heard shots. Did you see anything around you? No, I didn’t see anything like and I, while I was hearing the shots, I was still like. Disoriented and I, and the whole time I was like pretty messed up. I really didn’t know what was going on and I was just glad that I didn’t get shot. Like I’m thinking the gunshots, I’m laying on the ground. I should be safe and then um. My leg was messed up. I kept messing with my leg. I’m like trying to figure out what’s wrong with my leg, and I saw this stuff around me, which was parts of my wheelchair. So I started scraping and trying to find my phone. I really couldn’t tell what was what. So I tried to get my phone. I wanted to use the phone. I was gonna call my wife and tell her I was alive. Your leg, you were ble, I mean, were you were bleeding. I was, I think that I was bleeding, but I, it was my. My leg was just broke like in *** bunch of different pieces. There’s *** photograph taken from overhead where the truck is, and you are, you’re on the ground. The truck was to my right. Um, so did you, you heard shots. Did you see anything around you? No, I didn’t see anything like and I, I was screaming help, help, help, help, and finally *** guy came over and said, listen. Um, you’re allowed to be you’re lucky to be alive, he said, many people aren’t as lucky as you. I heard that somebody put ***, *** mark on your forehead indicating you were alive. Somebody came over and they put the number *** yellow, *** yellow X, and I asked. But what does that mean? And they didn’t tell me, but. Later on, I found what it meant cause whenever they, they care what they did is after *** while I’m not sure how long was the time was, the time was like forever. I mean, I, I felt like I was there forever. I was laying on my back and there was *** guy named um Patrick. He was *** Uh, he was one of the cops that was dressed up in like the army fatigue killer, and um he’s, he eventually he just stayed with me after I told me I couldn’t, I couldn’t walk and I was paralyzed, he stayed with me and um. He, I asked him what had happened. He said we don’t know, we’re still trying to figure it out. And I said, was it just *** drunk driver or something? Did someone blow up something? I, cause I didn’t know. I still went and put two together. The truck had done anything wrong. And even though I had seen the truck, I never even thought that that’s what happened because I was so out of it. When did you learn that it was This person in *** terror attack today. I, uh, they were talking about, uh, they were talking about something about someone shooting *** cop or something or someone got shot by *** cop, but no one called it *** terror attack, and I kept asking people like the nurses and doctors that were with me that night, and no one said it was *** terror attack. And today I found out that it was *** terror attack. Did it make you angry? Me personally, I’m gonna have *** hard time probably coming back to Bourbon Street for *** while, but I might, I might. But I’m not, I’m, it is, uh, my whole thing was you should feel safe there. And hopefully There was definitely things that were wrong. They didn’t put up the stupid thing at the end of the road that I had to drive over my wheelchair. It’s supposed to stop the cars wasn’t enough, so that was definitely *** *** problem like that thing that was supposed to be up was down. I drove over it. I didn’t get pushed over it, but it was only this tall, like 5 inches tall, yeah, they said it needed to be repaired or something. Yeah, well, they should have repaired it before New Year’s Eve. Is there anything else you want people to know? I don’t wanna take up too much. I’m just happy to be alive, man. I don’t want people to be afraid to go out and do things. I, I really don’t. I mean, this could happen anytime, anywhere, but what are you gonna do, stop living your life?

New Orleans terror attack survivor was thrown from wheelchair after being hit by truck

A survivor of the New Orleans terror attack on New Year’s Day described the haunting moments he was knocked from his wheelchair when he was struck by the suspect Jeremi Selensky, now hospitalized, shared his experience with CNN’s Anderson Cooper.Selensky said he was hit by the truck during the attack on Bourbon Street. He said he was thrown to the ground from his wheelchair and momentarily lost consciousness. Selensky said he woke up to gunshots and initially thought he was on the ground to avoid the gunfire. It was not until he saw parts of his wheelchair beside him that he realized what had happened. The incident left him shaken but grateful to be alive.

NEW ORLEANS — A survivor of the New Orleans terror attack on New Year’s Day described the haunting moments he was knocked from his wheelchair when he was struck by the suspect

Jeremi Selensky, now hospitalized, shared his experience with CNN’s Anderson Cooper.

Selensky said he was hit by the truck during the attack on Bourbon Street. He said he was thrown to the ground from his wheelchair and momentarily lost consciousness.

Selensky said he woke up to gunshots and initially thought he was on the ground to avoid the gunfire.

It was not until he saw parts of his wheelchair beside him that he realized what had happened.

The incident left him shaken but grateful to be alive.

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