LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A Louisville man caught in the crossfire during a shooting Sunday morning outside a popular stretch of late night bars on Baxter Avenue said he's lucky to be alive.

Jeremy Powers is a Louisville native, and like many other nights before, was enjoying a Saturday night out with friends.

On his way home, Powers and his friends were driving down Baxter Avenue in the Highlands.

Powers said he was focused on the traffic in front of him, when he started to hear what sounded like gunshots.

"All of a sudden just ping, ping, ping didn't know what was going on," Powers said.

At the time, Powers said he did not know he was in the middle of a shooting, until a bullet landed inside his vehicle.

"A bullet bounced off of our touchscreen and falls into the purse of the front seat passenger," Powers said. "That's when we realized something was going on and by then already cleared everything."

Powers' car is now in the shop, with four bullet holes on his passenger side doors, and one through the back bumper. He said a mechanic dislodged one bullet from his car. Another bullet hole has been found in the front passenger seat. 

Shaken up the night it happened, Powers stayed up. It was when he saw the news start to come out he said he realized the bullet holes in his car were likely connected to the bullets that killed two men and injured another on Baxter Avenue.

"Wrong place, wrong time," Powers said.

Louisville Metro Police spokesperson John Bradley said officers responded to the 900 block of Baxter Avenue, between Highland Avenue and Broadway, around 1:45 a.m. Sunday on the report of shots fired. Officers arrived on scene to find Michael Bachelor Jr., 20, shot and killed. Montay Wade, 29, was located nearby and transported by EMS to UofL Hospital, where he later died.

A third man, who has not been identified, arrived by private vehicle to Norton Women and Children's Hospital, but he's expected to survive.

Powers said it is nothing short of a miracle the three people in his car weren't hurt or killed.

"I was blessed, I was grateful I made it through the situation without being involved or seeing anything or knowing anything," Powers said. "You know scared, yeah you're scared but first and foremost you're grateful."

Louisville Metro Police said Richie Williams, 37, was arrested Thursday and charged with the murder of Wade and possession of a handgun by a convicted felon.

Police said it is still investigating Bachelor Jr.'s death.

Anyone with information in this or any other case is asked to call LMPD's anonymous Crime Tip Line at 502-574-LMPD (5673). Tips can also be submitted anonymously online through the LMPD Crime Tip Portal by clicking here.

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