Hourari Benkada said he was riding the New York City subway on his way to work on Tuesday morning when a masked man next to him discharged a smoke bomb and later opened fire.
Benkada, 27, said he rushed to help a pregnant woman as people pushed through the subway car to flee and was hit in the leg, blood gushing from the wound.
Benkada was among at least 23 people injured in the rush hour shooting in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Sunset Park. In addition to gun-shot wounds, some of the victims suffered from smoke inhalation, injuries sustained while fleeing the scene and panic attacks, according to officials. No one suffered life threatening injuries.
On Tuesday evening, New York Governor Kathy Hochul visited Brooklyn's Maimonides Medical Center where she met the mother of a 16-year-old victim who had just had hand surgery to save his thumb.