“I dived behind the desk and my teacher had got in front of me. Like, he was guarding me.”
“The gunshots were so close to me. Like, my ears started ringing real bad.”
“I saw like my math teacher. … He was all covered. I saw blood everywhere.”
Some were nearly shot, some were physically guarded by their teachers, and some saw “blood everywhere.” Teenage students at Apalachee High School told the news media in their own words the violence they saw Wednesday when one of their fellow students opened fire in the school.
“He shot at least 10 times. And then I ran to the back of the classroom,” one student told reporters outside the school after the shooting.
“I saw a deceased body on the floor,” another student told the “TODAY” show the morning after the bloodshed. “I saw a female with a shot wound to her leg. And it was just like a really traumatic experience.”
Two students and two teachers were killed, and nine others were hospitalized, according to Georgia law enforcement officials. The 14-year-old suspected gunman was charged Thursday with four counts of felony murder, the state Bureau of Investigation announced. Prosecutors plan to try him as an adult.
