Back in March I went to Colorado on a couples trip, ended going snowmobiling for the first time and fell over 20+ feet off a mountain into the street, fractured 6 of my ribs, lacerated liver, pneumothorax, plus other injures, had a ER surgery and I spent the rest of March in the hospital. Came home in a wheelchair but now I have a walker and I feel I'm getting better daily. But that long walk from the shooting to get across the street had me in a lot of pain.
We parked in a handicapped spot and my girl was begging me to get out, if it's not physical therapy I spend most days in the house. But while we where in the store, the shots started, it was very close and I could just see people, little kids all running for their life. I knew it was an AR he was shooting with. The outlet is so overpopulated and it's hard to get in and out, especially on a saturday.
There were a lot of cars crashing but I didn't hear a lot of windows breaking, I was just seeing people fall, he was not wasting bullets. People were coming to the window asking to be let in, we let them in.
It was only me and one other guy in the store, the rest were all women. He wanted to leave and make a run for it because the shooter was getting closer and closer but physically I can't run anywhere and I'm a sitting duck so I stayed in the store, him and his wife left running. I had the store manager cut off the lights and we just stayed there.
When we were being escorted out the store, we all heard one last loud shot, that was the shot that killed the shooter.
In retrospect a lot of people were screaming and crying including my girl, I had to calm her down. It may sound like BS, but I wasn't really scared, in the moment. Honestly I'm still shell shocked from my own accident that this situation made me more calm..