A night of revelry was coming to a close for Alexis Scott-Windham and her friends in the early hours of New Year’s Day after they came from Mobile, Alabama to ring in the new year on Bourbon Street.

The group had reached their final stop of the evening, Crescent City Pizza Works, to quickly use the restroom after finding out the restaurant was done selling food for the night.

Then, standing outside the pizza parlor on the sidewalk, Scott-Windham heard the whizzing sound of a speeding car and several loud booms. She looked to her left and saw the white pickup truck barreling toward her with its headlights turned off, already running other people over.

She began to step away but didn’t have enough time to escape — the truck ran over the back of her right foot, and she fell to the ground. Gunshots began to ring out, and she tried to get up to run away.

Once she stood, she saw the blood leaking from her injured foot. She had also been shot.

Scott-Windham, 23, and her friend, Brandon Whitsett, 22, were among the dozens injured in an alleged terrorist attack that killed 14 others. Police say 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar plowed his truck through crowds on the street just after 3 a.m., crashing the vehicle and opening fire with a rifle. Jabbar was killed by police at the scene.

“He was coming so fast, there wasn’t any time to move all the way out the way,” said Scott-Windham, now back at home recovering. “I was just blessed that I only got shot in the foot and I made it back home.”

Scott-Windham had arrived on Bourbon about 20 minutes before midnight with a group of seven friends, she said, all drinking hand grenades and walking along the street. Everybody there was celebrating the new year and “having a good time,” she recalled.

But the moments after, she said, “felt like a movie.”

Scott-Windham’s heart pounded quickly against her chest as Jabbar flew by. She thought he was a drunk driver acting unintentionally. As her best friend came to help her move out of the way, Scott-Windham recalled seeing bodies on either side of her: one person lying face down and another with his eyes open, blood running down his face.

By the time the gunfire stopped, Scott-Windham reached a side street off of Bourbon and sat down. A police officer quickly came to her aid, telling her they’d get EMS to bring her to the hospital soon.

Her friends left to search for Whitsett, who had also been struck by Jabbar’s truck and, unbeknownst to them, had already been taken to the hospital in an ambulance. One friend retrieved Scott-Windham’s belongings from where she had been shot and told her she was “traumatized” from seeing all the bodies at the scene.

As she sat on the cold sidewalk waiting for the ambulance, Scott-Windham cried and shook from the bitter, cold air surrounding her.

She thought of her one-year-old daughter, Skai, and how grateful she was to have survived.

“I’m like, ‘Oh my god, please Jesus, just let me make it out of here. Let me make it home,'” Scott-Windham said. “That’s all I was thinking about, was making it home.”

She waited for about 10 minutes for paramedics, who were busy treating victims with more severe injuries. The adrenaline began to subside, and severe pain radiated from her foot as it bled.

Finally, a “good Samaritan,” whose name she didn’t get, offered to drive her to the hospital with her friends. He had just arrived to pick his girlfriend up from work, she recalled.

Scott-Windham waited at University Medical Center for about two hours to be treated, watching more and more victims trickle into the waiting room with injuries of varying severity.

“Oh my God, it’s too many people coming in here now,” Scott-Windham recalled thinking. “There’s got to be somebody crazy that had to do this.”

Scott-Windham didn’t even know she had been shot until doctors treated her at the hospital.

Once in the hospital room, police interviewed her and told her the attack was intentional. The FBI have since said that Jabar had an Islamic State flag on the back of his truck and had planted two explosive devices in the French Quarter in ice chests prior to the attack.

“It’s just so disturbing,” Scott-Windham said. “I don’t even know how to explain it because you never would have thought this would have ever happened.”

Scott-Windham returned to Mobile Wednesday night with the bullet still in her foot, along with multiple fractures. Whitsett remains in Touro Hospital with injuries to his leg, shoulder, back and head, but on Thursday was recovering well, Scott-Windham said. Two other friends with them suffered minor injuries, she said.

She’ll need to return to an orthopedist in two weeks to check on her foot. The Amazon warehouse where she works originally denied her request for a leave of absence, but the company said in a statement Friday that they’ve since spoken with her and given her time off with pay.

“We wish her a full recovery and look forward to welcoming her back to work once she’s able,” said Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel.

Scott-Windham said she’s “just thankful to be here.”

“I just want to tell my story to everybody. I don’t want to take life for granted. It’s really opened my eyes.”