A Dallas woman found herself in the midst of two deadly attacks in one week—once in her home city, where 5 police officers were shot and killed, and another in Nice, France, where a man plowed a truck into crowds of people during Bastille Day celebrations on July 14.
French officials say 84 people were killed after a fireworks show on a main avenue in Nice. President Francois Hollande said 50 people are “between life and death.” In a televised press conference, the Paris prosecutor said that 202 people were wounded in total, 25 of whom are on life support. The driver was shot at the scene by police. He was identified as a 31-year-old Frenchman of Tunisian descent.
Footage uploaded by witnesses on social media shows chaos as people run to safety. Kristen Crouch, from Dallas, who was visiting France for a friend’s wedding, was one of them.
“I heard like two pops. I thought it was fireworks and I didn’t think anything of it but all sudden all these people were running in the opposite direction and speaking in French and screaming,” Crouch told CBS11.
When she realized what was going on, she and her friends took shelter in an apartment nearby.
They then made their way back to the hotel and saw first responders, patrol cars, and cops patting people down in the street.
“We quickly got back to the hotel and locked the door we locked door and plan on staying here,” Crouch told CBS11.
Crouch had just seen an attack back at home—five police officers and nine others were injured when a gunman opened-fire in Downtown Dallas on July 7.
“It’s really sad when you’ve been marked safe twice on Facebook in the last week. We shouldn’t live in a world like that,” she said.
