Parkland HS Meets Ft Frauderdale - Annika Dean is Back!!

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on the onica dean was in the baggage claim area when the fire or gunman open fire and barely escape with her life onica good morning to you so we're going to listen to a version of events from a woman who seems very monotone and very emotionless when describing how near she was to this particular shooter and but it's all about the the sort of positive spin on this by the hero that jumped on her and to cover a last this guy was shooting whilst everybody would react differently to being involved in one of these things it doesn't seem natural that she's not reacting in any way or showing any sort of major emotion so we'll play it through anyway good morning first things first I understand your mom of two boys ages eleven and thirteen I know they were on your mind and I know you're thankful for them this morning how are you holding up I'm doing okay I'm doing well on a cutie case if you can back inside that terminal yesterday what did you see what did you hear when did you realize what was going on I was standing at baggage claim three and I heard gunshots I knew what was happening I'm a teacher for Broward public schools and I've been through two active shooter trainings now bear in mind that only certain people get to go in front of all the different new stations the fact that she mentions that she's been involved in training to do with active shooters is it ever a bit of a red flag really because one she is going to be accustomed to it but she's also mentioning it to get into the subconscious of other people that it's something that's normal and everybody should eventually do so when I heard the gunfire I looked in the direction of the shooter I saw the shooter I I can describe them me at the black hair blue shirt you had the gun I saw the shots being fired I immediately ducked behind a smart cart and I just laid there there wasn't really anywhere to hide I couldn't have escaped I couldn't have run and I was there maybe 30 seconds and an older gentleman laid on top of me and said I will protect you so this is really the introduction into the ridiculous nature of this story and that after 30 seconds which is quite a long time if you were to count it yourself and that once this guy's shooting and eventually giving up because he wasn't doing anything for that long I think he only shot a few times reloaded a few more times and then that was the end of it 30 seconds is quite a long time but the idea that after 30 seconds a guy decides to jump on top of it and say I'll protect you wow have you been able to to find him or get in touch with him so as the news is showing that that particular picture the Daily Mail have this one instead and it says there that his wife was actually in the airport as well I mean there are this particular pictures actually been taken in a baggage area so make sure you're under as to whether this was just before the the shooting itself whether you know the prepping the pictures in advance or whether this was just somewhere else but the point I want to make is that this guy was with his wife and he decided to jump on top of her instead and it's not really just that it's the idea that their interview in the woman you don't ever get to hear anything from this guy to collaborate the story I have yes what did you say to him his name's Tony Tony Bartosovitz from Rochester New York I think them many times throughout the day really grateful that he was willing to put himself at risk to shield my body and you know I was praying to God the entire time that that my children wouldn't lose their mother or have a seriously injured mother he the gunman was walking around and and he was shooting people near me and I thought I might be one of his victims and I'm grateful for a man that shielded me that was a picture of Tony that we just had on the screen there Anika as as he was shooting did you hear him say anything could you tell whether he was saying anything at all he wasn't saying anything there wasn't man to the right of me I haven't I identified that was shouting absinities at him that I believe attracted the shooter to our area I didn't realize how close he was but Ruthie Bellman who was also there told me afterward that he was right next to us a Dublin mother and daughter were at the Fort Lauderdale airport when the gunfire rang out and they saw the gunman shooting the two women spoke to WDBJ7 Iker Jean Jatheon tonight. Ruthie Bellman and her daughter were traveling to Fort Lauderdale to go on a cruise mom Ruthie was waiting at the baggage claim when she heard what sounded like two pops and I turned and I saw him shooting and uh hit the ground Bellman said she knew running would not save her instead she lay on the ground so I found this in another article and again she says that she's been involved in active shoot training no else it's not weird because of the fact that I suspect in America they're going to be rolling it out across the nation in order to get everybody prepared for such a thing but it's the idea that it's mentioned it's again to get into the subconscious so that if everybody's saying the same thing when it comes to you at your school or place of work you won't think anything of it because everybody else has done it. I was crying out to you that's protecting me and my daughter and everyone else and that's what I was doing. The lady standing right next to me was shot in the head and I'm sure she died. I saw two of them and I'm pretty sure it was that. It took 15 minutes before mother and daughter knew they were both okay. I was terrified and uh Tony told me that there were there was a shot fired over us. Uh I had my face to the carpet I was not looking I did not want to look I was just praying. I prayed that my children wouldn't lose their mother um prayed that they wouldn't have a seriously injured mother and uh as I was praying a man climbed on top of me and shielded my body and as he did so he said I will protect you. Before this happened to me it always occurred in my mind that it might happen someday and I think it's probably occurred in most people's minds. This could happen and it's just an increasingly violent world that we live in. I don't know why anyone on the planet wouldn't have that same thought. I mean this is just the world that we live in. An older gentleman laid on top of me and said I will protect you. A man climbed on top of me and shielded my body and as he did so he said I will protect you. Uh this man climbed on top of me and as he did so he spoke to me and and he said I will protect you. My mission is to protect you. A little over a year ago my next guest was at the Point Waterdale airport just a few miles from here when a passenger pulled a hand on out of a check bag and started shooting five people were killed. Dozens heard in the chaos. Honakadine was spared thanks in part to a stranger who shielded her and on Wednesday Honakas 14 year old son Austin texted her from Marjorie Stone and Douglas High School. He's a freshman there. When he texted you what did he say? Initially he told me that there was a drill going on at his school an active shooter drill and I was very much taken aback by that because we had drilled as teachers but I was not aware of it that this starts influenced them with students and so You were teachers in your school? Yes so I was confused that Stone and Douglas would have an active shooter drill with students but I actually that's something that I would support and but I was still kind of confused. A minute later he texted me and said it's not a drill this is real and my heart just sank because I knew immediately that he was possibly in Clark's way and I was grateful that he was texting me that he told me he was a lockdown. I found later that that he had evacuated his biology classroom when a fire alarm went off and he was outside he heard gunshots people began running and screaming he ran into his JROTD classroom and he was there on the announce deck of red and we was there with about 30 other students. How's he doing now? I mean he's tonight graded. Well he said there that's with me last year he's got all the emotion of of these situations but then this year it was much more personal to us because we do know some of the victims two of the girls that were shot from from my church community their mothers are two of my closest friends and one of them passed away and the other is stable after being shot multiple times. And for you I mean to have been through what happened at the airport and for Lauderdale to experience that first hand and know what that situation is like and then to think about your son going through that it's it's I can't imagine what that's like. Well you know just walking around going I love this community I love Carpland and I go on a lot of walks by grace and an athlete here for incident you know I was going through some internal struggles with what happened and without changing me and and I felt kind of alone in that I felt like people don't don't understand how stressful these things could be and now I don't feel alone and I wish I did unfortunately my my entire community is so affected by that and we all we all know now. It has obviously when when kids have to go back to school that's going to be that's going to be tough and I know I've talked to a lot of kids some who are you know want to go back and and don't want their school and their community to be defined by this I'm wondering if your son is I mean if you talk to him about going back or is that something at this point you're not even approaching. We haven't talked about it but he has seen me go on with my life and we we love going to concerts in spite of what has happened at some concerts we love going to concerts we we throw sure shop we go to church we go to movies we love movies so in that regard we will continue to do those things we continue I'm a teacher I'll continue to show up and teach my students the way that it's really changed us is just the heightened sense of security I've taught my kids if you see something say something anything anything you need to be nine one one it can be an emergency but you need to report things that you think do you do you think more school should be doing more drills should is there more you think schools can be doing I do think that this should be a much more important thing for students I I recognize the drills themselves are a bit traumatizing similar to drill maybe there's a way to tone it down for children but you I am a role model Jerry I have a family to support hear me I want to stay in Arizona I want my new contract but I like you yes I like you Jerry my wife likes you you're good to my wife I will stay with you that's great I'm very happy are you listening yes that's what I do for you God bless you Jerry but this what you're gonna do for me do you listen Jerry yeah what what can I do for you Rod you just tell me what can I do for you it's a very personal very important thing hell is a family mom are you ready Jerry I'm ready I want to make sure you read there it is show me the money I'm not I'm not Jerry I want you to say what you want to say I want you to say what you would mean in brother hey I got bombs show on the other side but I hate you to say it yeah yeah yeah show you the money I got so you show me the money show me the money yeah show me the money so so