A New Orleans Saints defensive end led a crowd of bystanders who jumped into action to free a man trapped in a car after it plunged from the fourth floor of a CBD parking garage Sunday afternoon (July 15).
Mitchell Loewen, 26, was enjoying brunch with his wife and 2-year-old son at Willa Jean when the car came crashing down near the intersection of Girod Street and O'Keefe Avenue. His back was to the window he said, and the impact sounded like an explosion.
"People were screaming, it sounded like a bomb or an earthquake or something," Loewen said.