Raul Lorenzo y Losado, a 53-year-old construction worker, was badly injured after being shot on Church Street NW, around the corner from the Metropole building and VIDA Fitness.
He is still hospitalized and spoke with News4 by phone.
Just minutes after the initial gunfire inside VIDA Fitness, Lorenzo left the building where he was working to see what was going on.
As he stepped out onto Church Street, he thought the shooting was over.
“And when I started walking back to my building, to, you know, keep everybody inside, the shooting started again, and now I know he is shooting from the seventh floor, and that is when I was running for cover,” he said. “I got hit in my left arm.”
Lorenzo, who is the lead superintendent of a new building on Church Street, said he first saw a flash.
“And I hear the noise and I felt, like, a baseball bat hitting at my elbow,” he said.
Lorenzo says he will be out of work for months.
“It is really hard to put it in words,” he said. “It is unbelievable that, you see something that he, the guy was mad for, and … it is totally incomprehensible for me at least.”
