Footage Released of Student Shot Trying to Stop a Robbery

Police released surveillance footage of a Tulane University medical student being shot while trying to stop an apparent armed robbery in New Orleans.

Not only did the student save the woman, he actually stopped his car, got out, and took on her attacker when he could have just kept driving.

According to The Times-Picayune the footage, captured by a nearby business, shows a man in a hooded shirt dragging a woman down a street early Friday morning. She falls and the man takes her purse. Twenty-five-year-old Peter Gold stops to help the woman, and the man pulls out a gun and shoots Gold. The woman was not injured.

NOPD said in a news release, "The victim explained to the suspect, repeatedly, that he did not have any cash. The suspect became enraged and shot the victim once in the stomach."

Police said Gold is listed in "guarded" condition at a hospital.

Tulane University's president, Mike Fitts, issued a statement identifying Gold as a fourth-year medical student whose parents and sister also attended the university.

"He is an outstanding student who represents the best of Tulane in every possible way," Fitts said.

Police were looking for a suspect.