| Harvey Specter | 11-01-2016 07:07 PM |
Sad... Quote:
I was there. There were just screams, I never want to hear those screams again... She was just going on and on, stopping for short breaths...
I was in a subsection of the library, by the computers. The stabbing happened outside by the large gathering space, outside the library. When the girl got stabbed, there were just these screams, these visceral, horrible, awful noises. And then she started running. I'd never seen anyone run and scream like that poor girl did. Her face was bloodied, there was a gash running down from about her eye, blood was coming out. She was clearly also bleeding from somewhere on her torso.
The door to the room I was in was the first door that she was closest to. Still shrieking, she ran into the computer room and we shut the door behind her. Everyone ducked and hid underneath the desks. One heroic student took it upon himself to shut the door behind him, and make sure that all the other doors in the area were also closed.
So we sat there, waiting, hiding, terrified. A foot away was a girl bleeding out... I had never seen so much blood, I didn't even know that there could be so much of anything inside of a person. A few of the students who knew first aid rushed to put pressure on the wounds. These were the people that likely helped save her life, or at least prolong it. As soon as the police came, we were asked to move from the computer lab to the library proper. On our way out, even those that had been trying to avoid seeing the state of the girl, had to have caught a glimpse of her body surrounded in a river of blood. When it was safe, police were able to carry her out of the room, and airlift her to a hospital.
It was horrifying. In the minutes that followed, we hid out in the conference room. Girls were crying, people were hugging, nobody knew if the stabber was still out there... And we didn't know the location of one of our classmates, who had been away from the group at the time of the stabbing. We waited.
It wasn't until about 5:10 that we were let out of the school, through a back entrance so as not to see anything that would further disturb us. As though watching a girl scream and run, blood all over wasn't enough. The prerecorded message had stopped playing for a few minutes.
All of us in that room were shaken up. It was nothing short of a harrowing experience. The prerecorded “this is a lockdown” came back on and kept going off every few seconds. An officer came in and started asking us to write down our names phone number, and what we saw or heard, while we were still in the conference room.
You always hear on the news about stabbings and shootings, they're usually footnotes at the end of a broadcast, or posts with 14 up votes that nobody cares about. I'm guilty of just scrolling past them too. But there's nothing like being there, seeing things...
Most of the students in that room know the name of one of the victims, but in the interest of preserving privacy, I won't tell it. A press conference is planned for 7, but news is already circulating that one of the students taken to hospital is now dead.
Today was a terrifying, horrible day for everyone at Abby Senior.
Edit: fixed grammar mistakes, revised text. Accidentally said shooter instead of stabber, fixed now.
Edit 2: Naturally, I need to provide evidence, this is reddit after all. http://i.imgur.com/fcdQBPM.png
Edit 3: Added detail about waiting time.
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