Amazon denies New Orleans truck attack victim's request for leave of absence: report
A woman who was seriously injured in the New Year's Eve truck attack in New Orleans says that the Amazon warehouse where she works has denied her request for a leave of absence.
In an interview with The New Orleans Advocate, 23-year-old Alexis Scott-Windham of Mobile, Alabama says that her request for a leave of absence was denied despite the fact that she still has a bullet lodged in her foot and is suffering from what the newspaper describes as "multiple fractures" as a result of the incident, which took the lives of 14 people and left several more injured.
Scott-Windham, who is the mother of a one-year-old girl, tells the Advocate that she fears she'll have to find a new job now because her injuries have left her in no condition to work.
"Other than that, I'm just thankful to be here," Scott-Windham told the paper.
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Scott-Windham's friend, 22-year-old Brandon Whitsett, was also injured in the attack and remains hospitalized with multiple "injuries to his leg, shoulder, back and head," writes the Advocate.
42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the main suspect in the New Orleans truck attack, allegedly plowed into a crowd of people on Bourbon Street in New Orleans just after 3 a.m. ET on Wednesday morning.
Investigators found that Jabbar, an American citizen, was in possession of a flag of the terrorist group ISIS, although they have said that they have no evidence yet that he was acting in coordination with anyone else.