It was just a normal afternoon when a shootout began near the porch steps of a St. Roch neighborhood.

The video shows three young men walking in the 1600 block of Marigny Street Tuesday afternoon around 2:30. They spot a gray SUV heading toward Claiborne Avenue. Seconds later, somebody starts shooting from the direction of the SUV.

The men duck and take cover. Two of them pull guns and return fire.

One neighbor who did want to be identified said she was inside when she heard gunshots in front of her home.

“I was standing in the center of the floor,” she said. “When I heard the boom, boom, boom, we ran back to the back part of the house because at that time, we don’t know, bullets don’t have no name on them, we don’t really know where the bullets will go.”

P.J. Silva also heard the gunfire near his house and later watched video of the shooting.

“It just seemed like they had some enemies out there because they recognized the car first that was coming by,” Silva said. “Their response was to kind of get ready for something.”