All articles tagged with #eyewitness account
Photographer Leonard Jefferson, who captured Tupac Shakur beside Suge Knight just before the Las Vegas shooting, speaks amid Keffe D’s murder trial, recounting how he took the famous photo, was briefly detained at the scene, and notes plans for a short film about the moment.
On Hiroshima's 81st anniversary, Kiyoshi Tanimoto's long-lost English memoir Hiroshima 8:15 The Lost Memoir has surfaced in Yale archives via John Hersey's collection, offering a fresh eyewitness account of the blast and the minister's postwar relief work. The memoir describes the sharp flash, a tremendous explosion, and the devastation as his family was buried under rubble; it also recounts survivors' suffering, including radiation sickness, and his later peace activism with the Hiroshima Maidens. Found by Hersey's grandson Cannon Hersey and filmmaker Taku Nishimae, the manuscript adds to Hersey's 1946 Hiroshima coverage and is set to become a feature film at the 2028 Cannes festival, with Takehiro Hira attached to star as Tanimoto.
Alanie Aucoin-Jackson, a witness to the NYC subway shooting, described the harrowing experience as a "life or death" situation, fearing it might be her "final moments." The incident involved a violent altercation between two individuals on a crowded A train, resulting in gunshots and chaos. Aucoin-Jackson captured video of the disturbing scuffle and recounted cowering beneath her seat as the events unfolded. The shooter was arrested before stepping onto the platform, and the witness expressed the terror and uncertainty of the situation.
Trey and Casey Filter recount their experience of tackling and disarming one of the suspected gunmen during the Kansas City shooting, highlighting their heroic actions in subduing the assailant until police arrived.
A Russian actress and eyewitness, Evgenia Belskaia, revealed the circumstances leading to the viral video of an IndiGo pilot being assaulted by a passenger on a delayed flight from Delhi to Goa. The flight was delayed for 13 hours, causing frustration among passengers. The pilot was blamed for aggravating the situation by some passengers, and the accused, Sahil Kataria, later apologized to the pilot. Aviation protocols and flight duty time limitations were cited as contributing factors to the delay.
Two people were killed and one was critically injured in a hit-and-run crash in Pomona, California. The incident occurred on Sunday night, and the police are investigating the case. An eyewitness reported seeing a man running away from the scene, but the suspect remains at large.
Police in Allen, Texas, have contradicted the eyewitness account of a man who claimed he administered aid to victims of the mall shooting before police arrived. Steven Spainhouer, a former US Army officer, said he arrived at the scene before first responders and performed CPR on people who had been shot. However, the police department said Spainhouer was not a credible witness and arrived after the shooting had taken place. The department also said he did not perform CPR or administer first aid and did not move a deceased mother who was covering a live child.