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A Memphis community leader ducked for cover during a drive-by shooting — while she was being interviewed on TV about how to reduce crime in a city park.
The woman, who identified herself only as Yolanda, appeared on ABC24 to discuss a police plan to enforce a teen curfew in the southwest Tennessee city.
But as the Whitehaven neighborhood resident was in the middle of spelling her name on video for the station’s camera crew, more than a dozen rapid-fire gun shots erupted, prompting her quickly to fall to the ground for cover.
“Jesus. Get down, get down, get down,” she said in a calming voice to the TV crew after crouching out of the camera frame. “Just stay down and get down.”
She then said after a harrowing few seconds: “It’s OK. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Just stay down and get down.”