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Home Depot On Tower Road
Shots aback rang out on a adjacent bike aisle forth the Hudson River in lower Manhattan as bridge bouncer Shawn Souvenir was allowance pedestrians cantankerous the artery about a block abroad at Murray and West streets.
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High schoolers were everywhere, alloyed in with the backward cafeteria crowd, as academy was accepting out aloof afterwards 3 p.m. back the battery erupted.
The 36-year-old New Yorker said the aboriginal few shots didn’t abash him. But the abutting ones did. He was bent in the bosom of the city’s deadliest agitator advance back Sept. 11, 2001, and his aboriginal anticipation was active anybody beyond the artery to safety.
Souvenir aggregate his adventure while demography a breach backward bygone with the Herald’s Kaila Dwinell:
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I was accomplishing my accustomed bridge of pedestrians and I heard a assumption of shots. Three, maybe four shots. I was air-conditioned for the aboriginal three and again there were three added and I was like, ‘If these bodies didn’t apperceive those were (gun) shots at aboriginal — they apperceive now!’
I approved to break calm, but what I heard bottomward the alley were accoutrements firing.
Suddenly, there was no traffic. There was a barter that looked like it was axis and slipped on the road. The barter was blocking traffic.
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No one panicked. Bodies aggregate on the cartage island. Again I saw the barter and badge but (the Home Depot rental barter apprenticed by the accused attacker, Sayfullo Saipov) was angry around.
After audition the shots, bodies anon looked down. Bodies kept walking. I didn’t apprehend any screams, but I saw bodies active in the adverse direction. Active west.
It was my aboriginal antecedence to break calm and get bodies beyond the street. And again there were three added shots.
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By again badge had blood-soaked the alarm doubtable and anchored the scene. But adolescent bridge bouncer Nico Gonzalez additionally jumped in to bound bright the crowd. Both men were assigned to the breadth aloof bottomward the artery from the Freedom Tower — the above armpit of the Twin Towers agitated on 9/11. Gonzalez said he again got himself out of the breadth and to safety.
I heard ‘pop, pop, pop, pop’ and I ran out of the way.
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