Witnesses recount moments during baby shower shootout

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Terrified witnesses are now speaking out with more details about a shootout that took place outside of a baby shower in Northeast Memphis on Saturday evening.

The shooting happened in a shopping center on Raleigh LaGrange Road where businesses are located for families to eat, celebrate, and get their hair done.

“I had all the clients get on the floor. We hurried up and locked the door and ran to the back and called 911,” said one of the witnesses. “We were working on a kid’s hair.”

She says the little girl had to be eight or nine years old.

“She was very afraid,” the witness said. “She didn’t even want to come out of the back room to finish her hair because I was putting beads on her hair and she didn’t want me to finish. It was a first-time experience for her.”

Businesses in the area have cameras that were able to catch the shootout. Video footage shows two men hanging out of a black Mustang and other men in the parking lot shooting at each other.

A witness told police the shootout started at 5:15 p.m. when a car drove by Ladies Nyte Beauty Bar-tique where the baby shower was held and started shooting.

“It was about four or five of them,” the witness said. “We assume that since nobody was hurt that they probably just wanted to disrupt the baby shower or scare someone in the baby shower.”

MPD cannot confirm that but according to this incident report victims inside the baby shower refused to talk to officers.

Police also say several cars in the parking lot were hit with bullets, and a family member inside suffered a stroke but no one was injured by the gunfire.

“I come from a country where there was a 14-year civil war and for me, it was very scary because I didn’t come here to die here in America where I’m supposed to be free,” the witness said.

After the shooting, 35-year-old Anthony Jackson was charged with being a convicted felon in possession of a handgun. However, he’s not charged with the shooting.

The other suspects are still on the run.

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