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In a chilling account, George Davis, a resident of Texas, recounted the harrowing experience of being caught in a shooting outside a bar in Austin. The incident, which resulted in three fatalities, is currently under investigation as a potential terrorist act.
What started as a typical night out in Austin’s lively entertainment district turned tragic when Davis became one of the 19 victims wounded by the suspect, Ndiaga Diagne, who was later found dead.
“It turns out I was inadvertently moving towards the shooter as he was parking his car,” explained Davis, who was struck in the back.
After being shot, Davis briefly lay on the ground, managing to send texts to his brother and friends informing them of his injury before he rose to his feet.
“Within a minute or so, I called 911 and was speaking with the operator. Then something surged within me—perhaps adrenaline or something else—that urged me to start running,” he recounted.
Davis said he momentarily lay on the ground, texting his brother and friends that he had been shot before getting up.
“After a minute or so, I called 911, was on the phone with the operator, and from there, something came, you know, within me, and it might have been the adrenaline or something more, but something told me to run,” he said.
“So I was able to run about three or four more blocks to a different avenue, and there I was able to flag a lady down.”
The woman applied pressure to Davis’ wound before flagging down a man whose friend ultimately picked Davis up and drove him to an emergency room.
“I truly don’t believe I’d be here without them,” he said. “It felt like a, like a baseball just was rocketed into my shoulder, and as you can see in the video here, he’s continuing to fire at me and luckily, somehow, some way, by God’s grace, only one bullet struck me.
“I was concerned, if I started running, would I bleed out any faster? Was it safer to just stay in place? But something came to me and said, ‘Get up and go,’ and that’s what I decided to do,” Davis added.
After being discharged Tuesday, Davis has two fractured ribs and suffered a punctured lung as a result of the shooting.
“I just want to thank them myself, give them a hug and really tell them how much I appreciate that I’m alive today,” Davis said of those who helped him.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.