Reply #21: Hear is a first hand story of the events from a friend of mine. [View All]

[Demrock6]

He gave me permission to post it.


Hey everyone, as you can all guess, this has been a pretty hectic time here in Red Lake. The school shooting here is horrible and prayers have to go out to all the families who lost their loved ones in the tragedy. I am thankful to know that my daughter and sisters and brother made it out safe and sound. My little brother described to em what happened, he said that they thought there was a fight going on and they looked down the hall and seen the gunman coming, and they heard shots. He said that him and the superintendent slammed the door and held it shut as the gunman attempted to get in the room, the superintendent took my brothers cell phone and called the police, and then a shot rang through the window of the classroom. Then the shooter moved on. He was held in the school for awhile until it was cleared. I was at work when a friend called and said "Gare, whats going on at the school?" And I did not know, so I called my step-mother and asked and she informed me that there was something with a shotgun. I started getting real nervous and went outside, because I work just up the street from the school, as I got into our parking lot and seen kids running and as I went farther into the lot I seen 2 police officers running towards the middle school entrance area, and I turned around and ran back to my truck and sped out of the parking lot and to the closest area to the middle school I could. As I pulled my truck into the cafe parking lot, I noticed my little sister standing there next to a cousin of mine, I called her over to me and asked where my daughter and other sister were and she said they were still in the school. At this point I started to really get worried, I did not know what school the shooting was going on in, my daughter and sisters are in the middle school and the shooting was going on in the high school. I found the gym teacher, who was diretcing traffic and asked him about my daughter and sister and he siad they were in lockdown in the middle school, he also informed me they were alright and they would be letting them out of the middle school soon. Then my little sister told me that my little brother was still in the high school, and again I was worrying. Nervous I stood there wondering when I would see him, all these parents standing around crying and wondering started making me get a lump in my throat. Then I heard someone say here they come, I looked and spotted my little brother running from the high school, and started yelling for him, he noticed me and came over, he was very pumped up, he just kept saying "Holy shit, holy shit..." I asked him if he was alright and he told me that he was holding the door closed while the shooter was trying to get in, and then he started wondering about his friends, he said there was alot of screaming going on and parents were hollering for their children. Up to this point I stiil had not seen my daughter or little sister, and then a school employee came out and announced that they were bussing the kids to the elementry school, where they would get on their regular busses and head home. Me and my fiance jumped in the truck and went over and founf them both walking to their bus, I was relieved, I jumped out of the truck and I called for them and they came running to me, and I grabbed and hugged them both. Either girl could talk because me and my fiance were asking them if they were ok, they sat there with their heads down fighting back tears. We went to my fathers house and as we got out I grabbed my little sister again and she broke down and started crying, my fiance was doing the same thing on the other side of the truck with my daughter, as she cried. I am thankful my family made it out, safely, but I am also praying for the families of the children lost in this tragedy and injured. My little brother's best friend is one of the students who is in critical condition in Fargo hospital, he was shot between the eyes and has lost an eye. He is doing better they say, he is starting to respond to tests with light, and he is responding to the parents, but he still has not woke up. Thoughts and prayers to him.

Peace,
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