Chesapeake VA Walmart shooting - crisis actor thought it was fake

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out front now. Jesse will the shooting of the Chesape Wal-Mart. In fact, she's working there. It was just her fifth day on the job. Thank you for being with us tonight. I know this is tough. You were in that break room when the gunman came in. You saw a lot. Can you walk us through Jesse? What you saw and what happened in those moments? I was in the room. Before we ever shift, we have meeting in the break room. It's kind of walk. And mostly everybody was in there and the meeting just started. And all of a sudden, I look straight up. I was in the room. I was in the room. I was off where I was where the other guy was talking. And the other team lead is in the doorway. And it's got his hands like that. And at first it didn't even look real. It didn't register as real. It was in there. I was too suspicious I stepped in in all my free space automated up to there. I was in 복堡 wall and back putting on my arm. I was one. It wasn't the number that I was. And I I was looking at my other co-workers around me from the floor and they knew her in the chair. I didn't want to be loud. I didn't want him to hear me and make him mad and make him come back because I don't even know where he went. I didn't leave the stage. I couldn't... I wouldn't want to be left alone even if they weren't there or if they were there. I don't even know. I tried really hard not to look in the sound of the droplets. It replaced and replaced and replaced and replaced and replaced. Of how much blood was coming off. The different chairs it was making a rhythm and it was one of the most disturbing things. I think we'll never let go of that. It's understandable. It's so you're under the table then for safety. You talk about feeling the bullets as the shots rang out, feeling that in your chest, hearing the blood from your co-workers watching them in those moments. As I understand it, the shooter did look at you at one point and basically... I was hiding underneath the table and he told me to come out and I had my bag and I put my bag out first. I was like, please I don't have anything. You see my hands, tight thing. I just went out underneath the table and I'm shaking and I probably looked like a chihuahua at that point and he just had the gun up to my forehead and... Yes, it's really hard. Did he say anything to you in that moment, Jesse? He told me I got home. And he took the gun away from my forehand knee with aiming at the ceiling and he said, just you go home. And I got it real slow and that's how I'd not to look at everybody on the ground or even look that I had to touch the door which was covered. And I walked out the double doors to where you can see the aisles of Walmart and I made it right to where the egg aisles start. I just remember gripping my bag and thinking, if he shoot me in the back, well he's going to have to try really hard because I'm running and I booked it. And I didn't stop until I got to my car and then I had a meltdown in my car. I think it would be hard not to in that moment. It was all still so raw, understandably. And I know that in addition to what you saw and what you went through, you also knew at least two of the victims. And one of the reasons that you wanted to talk with me tonight was because you want their families to know something. You have a message for them. What do you want their families to know, Jesse? For the two girls families that we're sitting in front of me and I'm not going to name any names, but I want to let you know I couldn't ran out that door with everybody else that ran out that door and I stayed. I stayed, so I wouldn't be alone. And the last moments because I knew there was no way as bad as everything was, there was no way. And I stayed, stayed, just so you wouldn't be alone. And they weren't. You were there. There's been a lot of talk about this person who was your manager. I know this was only your fifth day there. And you didn't interact with him a lot, but was there anything that stood out to you, anything in those interactions where you could have imagined a scenario like this? No, no. I interacted with him one time before this. And it was me bringing up my kid. How much this overnight thing is like really kind of toying with me in some hours like, where was the clock, you know, and I'm like, man, I just want to get home. And he asked me how old my kid was and that's when it's months and he said a cute age. And we walked our separate ways, never, never, ever in my life. What I ever wish this upon anybody, and it's horrible because it doesn't, it doesn't stop. It doesn't stop replaying when you leave the scene. It doesn't stop hurting as much. It doesn't stop. And it sucks because you really want to just want that little bit of that you have before all this. You want it to never have happened. It's hard. Jessie, I'm so sorry that this is why we're speaking and that this is what you're going through. And I hope that you are surrounded with those who can help you in these moments. How else could I help? How else could I change anything? I don't know why you let me go and yes, bothering me really with that. I don't know why you did, but even because I just want to go on. Jessie, I'm glad that you were able to make it out safely. I hope that you staying with your co-workers brings those families from comfort and knowing that they were not alone. That you wanted to make sure that they were not alone in those moments. And Jessie, thank you. I know this is, there's no way this can be easy for you to talk about. I always so appreciate you taking the time. And I wish you strength on this road ahead.