After hours of surgery on both of his broken legs, Jeremi Sensky sat in a hospital bed and started to stitch together a life that had been destroyed on New Year’s Day.
When a shooter blasted down Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing 14 people and wounding hundreds more, the 51-year-old Pennsylvania father was ringing in the new year.
Sensky, who had a vehicle accident some years ago that left him paralysed from the waist down, was thrown out of his wheelchair during the mayhem, breaking both of his legs.
“Everyone helped me out since I wasn’t sure whether I would make it here. “I’ve put myself back together,” Sensky said to Whit Johnson of ABC News. “I’m happy to be alive, man.”
Sensky said he was unable to determine what was generating the disturbance as the white pickup vehicle started speeding down the roadway.
