An Omaha kindergarten teacher is home and recovering after being shot in the leg over the weekend.
Taylor Anderson was walking with a friend near the Gene Leahy Mall around 1:00 Sunday morning when Anderson spotted two men in hoodies get out of a car near 13th and Douglas.
Anderson tells WOWT 6 News that she knew something wasn't right. "They were kind of lurking around. One of them was heading toward our direction so I kind of got a bad feeling, maybe we had seen something that we shouldn't have seen."
Little did Anderson know at the time, but she and her friend had just walked into the middle of a confrontation. The confrontation escalated and Anderson says men on both sides pulled out guns. "One of the guys in the hoodies had started opening fire."
Anderson says she hid behind a large statue, and that it saved her life, but she did not escape unscathed. "I felt a pain in my upper thigh area. Kind of starting to freak out a little bit at that point."
Anderson had been shot in the leg during the exchange of gunfire. That is when Anderson says an off duty sheriff's deputy and a woman came to her aid. "I can't thank them enough. They kept me calm, they cracked jokes."
The shooters fled the scene and the deputy and woman called 911.
Anderson is back home and recovering, and can not thank the people who came to her aid enough. "Forever grateful for them. Truly forever grateful."
(Photo courtesy of WOWT 6 News)