A tourist from Colorado came to New Orleans and got jumped by a party bus of teens

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As Allen and four friends were walking down Canal Street around 2 a.m. Sunday morning, they noticed passengers inside a party bus heckling a woman on the side of the road who appeared to be homeless, Allen and other witnesses said. “There were girls screaming ‘F--- you’ non-stop to this defenseless homeless lady. Pretty much just poking a stick at her verbally to get her really on edge for no reason,” said Sarvenaz Chaichian, one of the college friends.

Allen’s friend Matt Wasserman walked over to the woman and told the group to stop, said Chaichian. She could not remember what he specifically said to the hecklers. Allen said he suffered memory loss that impaired his recollection of events.

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Nearly two dozen people, who the Colorado group said all appeared to be teenage boys, then spilled from the bus. The boys made their way with clenched fists over to the five tourists, who now stood near the entrance of Starbucks at Canal Street and St. Charles Avenue, Chaichian said.

The argument between the two groups quickly escalated into violence. As the college friends were walking away, one of the men approached Allen from behind and clocked him straight in the right temple, Chaichian said. He tumbled face first into the pavement.

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Antoine Lee said officers later pulled over the bus near Canal and Bourbon streets and he cooperated with their requests. NOPD confirmed officers located the bus after the attack, but said the perpetrators were not aboard.

At UMC, Allen said, doctors coaxed his jaw back into place and wired it shut as it heals. They stitched up lacerations on his chin and lip. Two of his top incisors were gone, and the root for one of them was fractured all the way to the base. He said he suffered a mild brain injury that led to memory loss. He’ll likely miss a week of his engineering classes at University of Colorado at Denver and work at Xcel Energy Colorado, where he builds wireless networks.

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