As Chicago radio personality Terri Hemmert celebrated her birthday at a New Orleans restaurant Friday night, her party came to a sudden halt. “It was interrupted by a hail of bullets,” the WXRT radio star wrote in a Facebook post Sunday.
WXRT radio host Terri Hemmert in 2014. On Friday, Hemmert survived a shooting that police said killed a server at the well-known Mandina’s Restaurant in New Orleans. A friend of Hemmert’s, from Chicago, was shot in the back.
As Chicago radio personality Terri Hemmert celebrated her birthday at a New Orleans restaurant Friday night, her party came to a sudden halt.Advertisement Hemmert survived a shooting that police said killed a server at the well-known Mandina’s Restaurant in New Orleans’ Mid-City neighborhood. A Chicago woman and friend of Hemmert’s who has not been identified was shot in the back, Hemmert wrote in her post.
After hitting the floor alongside 28 “precious friends” as gunfire erupted, Hemmert said that people who are tired of hearing about shootings should “think again.”“It’s no longer a figure of speech when you say you dodged a bullet. And if someone says ‘this is not America’ or ‘this is not us,’ they had better duck,” Hemmert wrote.
The Times-Picayune of New Orleans identified the slain server who police said two assailants targeted as 23-year-old Hilbert Walker III. A private security guard returned fire, interim New Orleans police Superintendent Michelle Woodfork told reporters.Chicago Tribune editors' top story picks, delivered to your inbox each afternoon.
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