“I got grazed. I started picking up other kids and started throwing them in the breezeway,” Noah Devereux said.
FORT WORTH, Texas — One of the teenagers injured in a drive-by shooting in Fort Worth last week is sharing his fears and concerns.
Home surveillance video shows the moment when someone opened fire while 14-year-old Noah Devereux and other children were standing outside their apartment building. Noah’s right leg was grazed by a bullet but still managed to help the other children hurt.
“I don’t know if they’ll come back,” said Noah.
On May 1, just after 7 p.m. Noah and several of his neighbors, mostly children, gathered outside their apartment building in the 3600 block of Las Vegas Trail. It was a very typical day until they all got surprised by a spray of gunfire. The shooting sent everyone running for cover.
“It was more than once, more than 30,” said Noah, “Probably sounded like it was an automatic gun, like off a video game.”
The six victims’ ages range from 3 to 19. Noah is heartbroken that one of the victims is as young as three years old.
“I got grazed. I started picking up other kids and started throwing them in the breezeway,” said Noah.
One of the neighbors recorded a video of the aftermath from inside the breezeway where everyone ran for safety. In the cell phone video, you hear the chaos, and the video shows an adult male giving first aid to a child on the floor.
Noah’s mother Marquita Devereux constantly checks on the young victims, including a 3-year-old little girl.
“She was fighting for her life, and she still is,” said Marquita Devereux, “there’s three kids that are not walking.”
Marquita’s apartment is riddled with bullet holes. One of the bullets came near her daughter in the living room who was watching television.
Another bullet entered the back of their window air conditioning unit, which is no longer working. Their living room windows are still broken too. Now after being forced to run from gunfire and still no arrests, Marquita, her children, and even her neighbors do not feel safe in their apartments.
“We don’t want to be here,” said Marquita, “All the families in this breezeway are scared.”
Marquita told WFAA that since the shooting, not only has she not been able to sleep, but every time she steps into the breezeway, she has flashbacks.
A GoFundMe has been created to help two of the children recovering from the shooting.