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Bang ing on doors. and when they banged on ours, i said get back, and i have my window covered up with paper, i said who are you. and its the police. i said prove it. they showed me their badge and i opened the door. im not going to open the door for anybody unless they have prove. and we all got out. >> you did the right thing checking the id. were you able to lock the door to feel okay if the shooter was on the other side? >> oh, yeah, my door is always locked. thats standard operating procedu...

>> yes, at 2:20 or so i finished up reviewing for a test for my advanced algebra class that i have. and fire alarm went off. i thought was strange considering we just had a fire drill at 9:30 this morning. i said dont go anywhere. lets see what happens. maybe its a false alarm, what have you. and then we all wound up at the door. getting ready to go out. maybe 30 seconds later admin came on and said evacuate the building. so we all evacuated. i always wait to go last and make sure all the kids a...

>> kelsey, its unthinkable. its unthinkable that you would have to hear your geography teacher be killed basically in front of your eyes and hear another student struggling for his life. were you aware that -- did you see your teacher be killed or were you aware that he had been killed? >> when we were all piled up by his desk, that was procedure for code red, to hide and do anything possible to keep us safe, my friend said mr. beagle, which is his name, is not moving. he was laying in the doorw...

I could tell all my administrators were in their correct place for a fire alarm. around 2:19, 2:20 when the fire alarm went off that started the whole scenario, i didnt realize what was going on. i thought possibly it was a culinary fire, only because my administrator came on the loud speaker and said evacuate the building. so we grabbed the paperwork for the fire drill and we started walking out. as i shut the door to go out the back door for the fire alarm, i heard seven gunshots. >> you heard...

Came to me and she just hugged me and stuff. and it was just like i knew i was safe but like i still didnt feel safe because there was a whole bunch of other kids around me, which easily could have been shooters. so i was just paranoid, but happy at the same time. >> how in gods name would you know. how are you doing? are you okay to keep going? you just tell me. >> yeah, im fine. im fine. >> as you were there, confusion, i would imagine, because i know a the lo of students were saying earliner ...

And our teacher had gotten outside we heard gunshot type noises butmu iffled. we were expecting a code red drill so we said okay, we need to go back to our spots. we didnt have our backpacks and everything. we just went under my teachers desk against the wall with the door far from the door and we waited. also we didnt have service in this building so we started to get texts from people. >> cell service? >> asking if people were okay. we had cell service but couldnt check the news, see what was ...

His role as the athletic director. he was -- he was a great guy. i know that he was a father. everybody -- everybody yesterday got up and did their normal thing. went to work. went to school. and to have it end, you know, so tragically and now you know we all just sit and wait to hear, you know, who made it, who didnt, you know, it is very difficult. >> beyond difficult. all i can say is im sorry that you have to go through this. you were inside the school, you were warned by someone in the hall...

And we all proceeded to follow our rules and we started to head out of the classroom. and our teacher was out and about two other students were out as well. and then all the sudden, we heard the type of gunshot noise, but it doesnt sound like a full gunshot. it sounded more muffled. my teacher assumed it was a drill. the teachers had been trained to go through these drills. so we were expecting a drill, actually, for an experience like this. so we immediately went back into the classroom, made s...

All he wanted to do was help but i knew i could put everybody elses life in jeopardy. after 10 minutes i finally couldnt stand it anymore. i took off my jacket, threw it over the desk and had someone try to help the girl in front of me. i tried my hardest. everyone is trying to stay calm. i finally got a hold of my sister mckenzie. she was in the second-floor bathroom. got into the door safely and they are not allowed to open the doors on a code red but he luckily did and he saved her. she was p...

Everybodys life was in jeopardy. after ten minutes i couldnt stand anymore, took off my jacket, went over the desk to help the girl in front of me. everyone was staying calm. i got ahead of my sister, mackenzie. he was on the second floor bathroom, got in safely and they dont open the doors on code red but he was put into a room and survived. it was traumatizing, we were told to leave the building. there were bodies on the floor. heather: former classmates describe nikolaus cruz as troubled, a l...