BATON ROUGE, LA. (KLFY) — An Acadiana man recounted his experience working inside the Mall of Louisiana when a gunfight led to five people being injured and one killed.

The mall employee, who wished to remain anonymous, said the terrifying experience, and video taken by a different witness showed the gruesome aftermath inside the food court.

“Oh, it’s a shell. Two shells, two shells. You okay, ma’am? You okay?” the man taking the video asks a victim sitting in the food court. A man helping her points to her foot, replying, “She’s bleeding. She got grazed right here.”

Nearby, two men performed chest compressions on another victim, telling the victim to “hang in there.”

 

The video taker asks, “She’s okay?” A man doing chest compression responds, “No.” He then tells the victim to hold on while another man helping replies, “We need people back, man. We need people back.”

Steps away, blood splattered the floors. A different man lay on the ground with a brace, propping his injured leg on a chair. The victim appears to be talking with someone on his phone.

The video continues, showing a law enforcement officer asking another man if he can hear them. A woman checks his pulse, telling him she’s going to take care of him.

The one-minute video only captures a small glimpse into the horror that unfolded in the food court at the Mall of Louisiana.

“We knew it was in the food court because the shots were extremely close,” a man, who was working at a clothing store near the food court on the first floor, said.

“Literally like two seconds, all you hear is like six, seven gunshots go like off, and all you hear is people screaming, running down,” the worker, who did not want his identity released, added. “We went into flight or fight mode.”

He said he was talking to multiple customers inside the store when the shooting began.

“I was just trying to get all the customers and everybody to the back,” he recalls. “Everybody escaped through the back-alley way.”

The employee ushered the customers into the back break room. From there, they made their way through fire escape tunnels that led outside.

“Flight or fight mode. Just make sure everybody, get everybody out the store safe,” he told News 10. “We all ran to our vehicles, tried to get as far away from the mall as possible.”

It wasn’t until he and the customers made it out that they learned of the horrors that had unfolded so close.