MrBallen

You know, he was missing out on so many opportunities because he was stuck here.

And even though now he was awake and alert, he was still partially paralyzed and just couldn't speak very well.

Helene sat with Gildo for about an hour, talking to him and also checking in with his doctors.

And then at some point, she kissed her son's forehead and told him she would see him soon.

Just after 7 p.m., Helene walked out of the hospital to where Mohamed was waiting in the minivan.

And this time, she got into the front passenger seat.

And Mohamed, he started the car and they began to make their way out of the lot toward the busy streets of Nice.

And pretty much right away, they got stuck in absolutely standstill traffic.

And so Helene just sat back in her seat and tried to relax.

But as she was doing that, something caught her eye outside of the car, like out her window.

It was this person who had a hat kind of pulled down low over their eyes, and they were jogging right towards the minivan.

And Helene, she just stared at this person and tried to see if they maybe knew them, because it did seem like they were coming right towards this car, like their car.

But then she saw what this person was holding, and immediately she screamed at Mohamed to drive away.

But before Muhammad could react, Helene heard a loud bang and the sound of shattering glass.

About 15 minutes later, the commissioner of the Nice police, Philippe Frison, pulled up to the hospital with the sirens on.

He'd been in his office about to finish up for the day when he got a call about shots being fired, but he really didn't know how serious it was.

So he parked and jumped out of his car, and the first thing he saw was a crowd of people gathered on the street across from the hospital.

and they were all staring at this parked black minivan with Monaco plates and also a shattered passenger side window.

Frison jogged over, and he was technically the first officer on the scene, but a firefighter standing by the minivan told him a few details based on what he'd seen and what the onlookers had been saying.

Apparently, a man dressed in black had come out of nowhere on foot and fired two shots into the minivan, striking both the man and the woman who were in there