Students gives details on Apalachee High School shooting | FOX 5 News

>>>>: WAY >>>>: OFF CAMPUS, AND JUST HEARING SOME OF THE EMOTIONAL, AND, AND ALARMING >>>>: AND >>>>: TRAGIC >>>>: ACCOUNTS OF WHAT >>>>: HAPPENED THERE THIS MORNING. YEAH. >>>>: TOM. SO YOU'VE ALSO BEEN SEEING BUSSES LIKE THIS. THEY'VE BEEN GOING IN AND OUT. HI, THERE. YOU'VE BEEN SEEING BARROW COUNTY BUSSES GOING IN AND OUT, PROBABLY THE LAST 30 MINUTES. I'VE SEEN THEM COMING HERE TO THE HIGH SCHOOL, BUT THERE'S REALLY A BIG LINE UP THERE. I BELIEVE THAT'S AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOL THAT IS IN THE BACK PART, AND THAT LINE HAS GROWN SINCE WE'VE TALKED LAST. THERE WERE JUST MAYBE THREE BUSSES AT THE LAST POINT, BUT NOW THERE ARE MORE BUSSES. TO YOUR POINT ABOUT THIS COMMUNITY, EVERYONE KNOWING EACH OTHER, PEOPLE ON MY FACEBOOK PAGE, SEEING THAT WE'RE COVERING THIS, SAID THAT THEY GREW UP HERE, THEY DON'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE, BUT THEY KNOW THE PRINCIPAL. THEY KNOW THEY HAVE FAMILY MEMBERS WHO GO HERE. THEY KNOW DIFFERENT PEOPLE WHO ARE IMPACTED DIRECTLY BY THIS. IT'S ONE OF THOSE PLACES WHERE YOU KNOW EVERYBODY FROM WHAT I'VE BEEN TOLD IS A TIGHT KNIT COMMUNITY. YOU MIGHT SEE PEOPLE IN THE GROCERY STORE, AND EVEN IF YOU MOVE AWAY, YOU STILL KNOW EVERYBODY THAT IS STILL HERE. YOU CAN STILL SEE A TRICKLE OF PARENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES COMING OUT FROM BEHIND. NOT BEING ABLE TO SEE. AND YOU GUYS WILL HAVE A BETTER PERSPECTIVE IF THERE'S STILL A LARGE GROUP ON THAT FOOTBALL FIELD. BUT IT DOESN'T SEEM AS MANY PARENTS AND FAMILY MEMBERS ARE COMING OUT AS WE ONCE SAW AT ONE POINT, WE'VE SEEN MORE CARS COMING IN AND MORE FIRST RESPONDERS. AND THEN OF COURSE, WE'RE GETTING READY TO HOPEFULLY HEAR FROM THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE HERE AND OTHER TOP OFFICIALS THAT IS SET UP RIGHT ON THE OTHER SIDE HERE AS WELL. AGAIN WE HAVE SEEN A LOT OF DIFFERENT PARENTS COMING HERE FROM ELEMENTARY TO MIDDLE TO DAYCARE. AND THEN OF COURSE, YOU HAVE THE PARENTS HERE AT THE HIGH SCHOOL AS WELL THAT IS COMING OUT AND COMING OUT AS WELL. SO WE'RE HEARING DIFFERENT THINGS, BUT WE'RE ALSO TALKING TO STUDENTS. ONE LADY EARLIER WE GAVE HER TALKED TO HER LIVE ON THE AIR. YOU HEARD HER. HER NAME WAS CAMILLE. SHE SAID THE GUNMAN WAS IN HER CLASSROOM. IT WAS HER CLASSMATE TRIED TO GET INSIDE OF THAT CLASSROOM, BUT THEY WOULD NOT LET HIM IN. SHE HEARD ABOUT FOUR SHOTS OUTSIDE OF THAT. THEN HE SAID FURTHER DOWN SHE HEARD IT. MAYBE NEXT DOOR, MAYBE HEARD ABOUT ANOTHER COUPLE OF GUNSHOTS HAPPENING THERE. AND THEN SAID GOING TO DIFFERENT HALLWAYS. WE'VE TALKED TO DIFFERENT STUDENTS. THEY SAID THEY HAD TO WALK OUT WITH THEIR HANDS RAISED LIKE THIS WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT, AND THEY SAID THEY RAN FROM THAT BACK PART TO THAT SAFE SPACE, WHICH WAS THE FOOTBALL FIELD. AND MANY PEOPLE THOUGHT IT WAS A DRILL. THEY PRACTICED FOR THIS, SO THEY DIDN'T KNOW IF IT WAS A DRILL OR IF THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS FOR REAL. IN THIS INCIDENT, AND UNFORTUNATELY, THIS WAS THERE. BUT THEY DO TRAIN FOR CERTAIN THINGS LIKE THAT. BUT ONE PERSON SAID THEY JUST NEVER KNOW. AND THIS IS AN AMBULANCE THAT IS GOING THERE WITH ITS SIREN. NORTHEAST GEORGIA MEDICAL CENTER. THEY ARE NOT SURE IF THERE IS ANYONE IN THE BACK, BUT HE IS RUSHING OFF DOWN THE STREET THERE. AND THEN WE'VE ALSO SEEN PARENTS. ARE YOU GUYS JUST NOW COMING FROM THE FOOTBALL FIELD? ARE YOU GUYS COMING FROM THE FOOTBALL FIELD? HOW LONG HAVE YOU GUYS BEEN OUT THERE? HOW LONG WERE YOU GUYS OUT THERE, DO YOU MIND IF WE JUST ASK? JUST A QUICK QUESTION. SO YOU GUYS WERE OUT THERE FOR FOUR HOURS? ARE WE ON THE NEWS? WE ARE ON THE NEWS. THIS IS LIVE. HOW LONG HAVE YOU GUYS BEEN OUT THERE? I KNOW YOU GUYS HAVE HAD A LONG DAY. WE GOT OUT. I GOT OUT TO SCHOOL AT, LIKE, 11 ISH BECAUSE IT HAPPENED DURING SECOND PERIOD. SO IT WAS LIKE TEN, 30, TEN, 20 ISH. WE'VE SEEN TENTS BACK THERE. WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT? ARE THERE GRIEF COUNSELORS? YES, THERE'S GRIEF COUNSELORS AND THEY'RE INTERROGATING STUDENTS THAT MIGHT HAVE HEARD OR SEEN SOMETHING. HOW ARE YOU PROCESSING ALL OF THIS FAMILY? THIS IS A LOT TO GO THROUGH. HOW ARE YOU PROCESSING THIS? I'M TRYING TO PROCESS IT. IT HASN'T CLICKED YET, BUT I DON'T WISH THIS ON ANY PARENT IN ANY COUNTRY, ANYWHERE. I FELT MY LIFE FLASH BEFORE MY EYES. LITERALLY. DID YOU HEAR THE GUNSHOTS AT ALL? YEAH, I WAS IN THE HALLWAY, SO, YOU COULD HEAR THEM, LIKE, BANG ON THE LOCKERS AND STUFF. AND THEN MY TEACHER, SHE UNFORTUNATELY, SHE, LIKE, LEFT THE CLASSROOM, BUT CAME

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