New Teacher- Describes a Cop as Shooter

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Slinally, this bounce moment! just one week ago Valentine's Day. Creative Writing teacher Stacy LaPell's class was playing music, writing love letters when the fire alarm went off. The students filed into the hallway she heard gunfire. The killing had begun. I was about two feet away from my door. All of a sudden I heard gunshots in the stairwell, which is about 20 feet away from my room. And then kids were screaming and then running back towards me and towards the end of the hallway. So I just went in this very strange autopilot mode where I pivoted on my feet. I unlocked my door and then kids just start pouring in my room. I had to get my kids in there but I was pulling them and getting them in and shouting at them to get in the room. And then I suddenly saw the shooter about 20 feet from me standing at the end of the hallway actively shooting down the hallway. Just a barrage of bullets. And I'm staring at him thinking, why is the police here? So I wanted to start off by telling you a new barcar dropped off the suspect at 2019 yesterday, 219 pm at Stoneman Douglas High School. The suspect entered the East stairwell that's building 12 with a rifle inside a black soft case. The suspect exited the stairwell, pulled the rifle out of the case. At 21 hours and 33 seconds, the suspect readyed his rifle and began shooting into rooms 12, 15, 12, 16, 12, 14. He went back to 12, 16, back to 12, 15, and then to 12, 13. The suspect then took the West stairwell to the second floor and shot one victim in room 12, 13, 12, 34 on the second floor. The suspect then took the East stairwell to the third floor. He dropped his rifle in backpack, ran down the stairs. He exited building 12 and ran towards the tennis courts and then took a southbound turn on foot. The suspect crossed fields and ran west, along with others who were fleeing and tried to mix in with the group that were running away, fearing for their lives. The suspect arrived at the Walmart store. He bought a drink at the subway and then left the Walmart on foot. The suspect then took the West stairwell to the third floor. The suspect then took the West stairwell to the third floor. He was in the middle of the street. The suspect then took the West stairwell to the third floor. The suspect then took the West stairwell to the third floor. The suspect then took the West stairwell to the third floor. Today's drill, more than 60 officers and 50 students acting as victims for Jeremy Finkenbinder training these teams hits home. When something like Newtown, San Bernardino, Orlando happens. Do those things keep you up at night? I think about them quite a bit. I really do. This is my passion. What's the goal now? The goal now is to be able to render a medical aid quickly to save more lives. That's really what it boils down to. The tip of the spear, my first priority is to get the bad guy terminated. He's out of the equation. Be aware of your cover and what you guys are moving to. If your partner gets hit, what do you do? The first scenario of the day begins. We report to two shooters wearing tampants and black shirts. It's like a nervous excitement. It's the anticipation of it's like a fear of being bad. You want to do really well for your teammates and for the people that you're trying to help out. Tinsley and our team get ready to rush in. The officers navigate through Pandemonium. This is what you call a contact team. Three or four officers all working together, moving right to the threat as fast as they can. They quickly overtake the gunman. But the teams find even simulated chaos comes with real problems, even real wounds. The bad guy obviously got one off and I took around as soon as I even came on point. This is strange because he's in full metal garb, helmet, face mask, bulletproof armor, shooting this rifle that I've never seen before. I don't know when I decided it was the right time to close the door. I grabbed the handle with both hands and that's when I got nicked. Shit, see I don't know if it's the hipnosis that's making him slaves or whatnot. But all I know is they already got two brothers we know and it could be a whole bunch of brothers they got already. What's the next one? What's the next move? I don't have an apple say that I'll do nothing. Oh my girl, I don't know when I decided it was the right time to close the door. I grabbed the handle with both hands and that's when I got nicked or grazed or whatever you call it. So a bullet hit your arm? Yes, as I'm closing my door, I'm shouting at my next door neighbor, Mr. Scott Beagle, to close this door. And he's the kind of man that would just keep that door open a little longer, you know, he's all about the kids, you know. But he couldn't see the shooter. I had a good visual of him, which is why I yelled at him to shut his door now. 35-year-old teacher, Scott Beagle, among the 17 murdered on Marjorie Stoneman Douglas' campus. I heard him shoot a barrage of bullets into Mr. Beagle's room and then he came to my room and shot about... I saw something was going wrong, it's when there was a huge wave of students coming back from downstairs saying they heard gunshots. This is after the fire alarm. This was after the fire alarm and I actually walked up to my teacher because I was being shoved around and I walked up to my teacher who is Mr. Beagle. And I said, I'm scared, I don't know what's going on. And we heard the gunshots. He unlocked the door, I ran in and unfortunately he did not run in with me. How far away were the gunshots when you heard them, were they very loud? They were close, they were right in their stairwell, it sounded like he just went down the hall and probably was 5-10 feet away from me and the group of friends that we were hiding in an open door classroom. We were lucky to be alive. So there were five of you in that classroom? There were probably 15-20 kids in that classroom. We all had to be very quiet because our door was wide open. Did you actually see what happened to your teacher? No, I did not witness what happened to my teacher. I just heard the shot that ended up killed him. Remembering that bang, it haunts me. Every time I hear a loud bang, I freak out and it's hard. I got four or five shots into my room breaking the glass of my door. There's a rectangular piece of glass and I heard him continuously shooting down the hallway, down the hallway. And I never really knew when he left because we just thought he was still there. Once you all were inside the classroom, you were with your students covering them kind of like a mother-hand. Yes. Clutching, I think I left fingerprints in one girl. Giving eye contact to other kids who were shaking and freaking out and I'm mouthing it's okay, it's okay. It was so quiet and then all of a sudden, I hear helicopters outside far, far in the distance. It seemed to me police officers far, far in the distance. Kids were screaming in the hallway for help. We're trained not to let anybody in the room. I would say a good 45 minutes went by, maybe an hour. We heard the SWAT team come on the floor but I still didn't trust that it was them. Because they were banging on the doors, police let us in. No one got up. And then they just let themselves in and got us out and on the way out. That's when I saw Mr. Beagle laying on the ground and I saw my students laying on the ground. I lost two students and other bodies and carnage everywhere. It was the most awful sight I've ever seen. I'm in the advanced drama class and so when I heard that you had an opportunity to come to the police, I was really excited. But when I got here, I was just like, oh my gosh, this thing is so creepy. The entire place is creepy. I was looking for padded rooms like nails on doors and chains and everything. I was so freaking out. I definitely thought it was not really as scary as it is. But when you really get to the scenario, my friends claim on me shaking me and she's crying and then I hear gunshots and everything, I get really scared. Can you tell me if I see it? I'm a seeker. Two people stay here. Two people stay here. We are all switching off different roles. At the moment, I'm just kind of the first person, well second person to see the shooter. It's like from a movie. It's like from a movie. How are you dealing having seen this and it being very, very real? It's awful. I've never had to deal with anything like this before. I'm a stoic person to begin with. I'm not the most emotional person. So when I sit and think and I pause about my two beloved students who are killed from that class, it's hard to live with because I love them so much like they're my kids. I've known Meadow for a since she's a 10th grader. I'm just because she wanted to have me again, my creative writing class, and Joaquin was like a son. He called me mom and it's a heartbreaking. What are you holding on to to kind of center you and keep you moving forward and waking up every day with hope? Well, just that I survived and we survived and we have to move on. You know, you can't sit there and cower over it. You still have a life. So we're left here on the planet for a reason. Let's do what we're supposed to do and if we're not sure what that is, we'll figure it out but we're alive. And that's the way the cookie crumbles. I'm just messing with you Bruce. See, you just got to remember that the newsroom is like a big cookie. You like jazz Evan? 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