william la jeaunesse. thank you. >>> he was in the thick itself on thursday night. i guess the police call went out and he went to work. >> yeah, actually saw it on twitter like a lot of people did and something like that happens, you -- as you know, you go to where the news is. >> where did you end up and what were you seeing? >> right after, i ran to the omni hotel which is right there and that is when there is a lot of confusion, the protesters were trying to leave the area. police were cordoning off different sections. there were humoa were rumors if multiple shooters. we were trying to try figure out what was going on. >> and seeing officers down, that is something i've never witnessed an officer fall in front of me. i've been there for a lot of after math, but i've never been in the middle of it when it happened. i don't know how easy that would be to handle. >> yeah, and i wasn't there that close to it, by the point i got there, they had cordoned off the main crime scene and were keeping people away from it. >> i was watching on fox 4 here locally, we were wa