Daily News | ‘I thought we were going to die’: Jamie Gauthier’s brush with gun violence is all too common for many Philadelphians | Jenice Armstrong
at 37th and Melon Streets last Saturday around 5 p.m. and was getting in her car when gunshots suddenly rang out.
De’Wayne Drummond, one of the group’s cofounders who walked out with her, yelled for Gauthier to get down. She ducked inside of her city-owned vehicle as low as she could get. “I was scared that the bullets would pierce the car, but there was nothing else that we could do,” she told me. “I didn’t know which way the bullets would come. When the shooting subsided, De’Wayne was like, ‘Go, go, go! Drive away.’”
“There were so many shots,” Gauthier said. “I thought we were going to die that day. But all I could do was pray and wait for the shooting to stop. And by the grace of God, we were unharmed and managed to drive away.” Afterward, a police captain told her that several shooters had been involved but no one was injured. Still, the experience rocked her. Gauthier spent the next day and a half regrouping at home. As she did, the West Philadelphia representative thought about how some of her constituents experienced what she did that afternoon all the time.“I was able to get in my car and drive away. But many others live in this community,” she said during her presentation.
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