face. moments after he got hit in the temple from a gunshot she thought she could save him. >> i felt him breathe. >> reporter: laverne said she was a few feet away from her friend and co-worker vishnu pandit when gunfire parade around the office. you almost got hit yourself, right? >> yes, the bullet missed me because we were already -- i was already moving, so the bullet missed me and it shattered the glass right next to where my head was. >> reporter: pandit was down but laverne said when she checked his pulse, it was strong. she and her co-workers ignored their own safety and what happened next, when the shooter was still in the rampage was right out of a movie. the security guards showed up, they helped me get him to a chair to wheel him to the stairs. we put him in the emergency evacuation chair and i was talking to him and praying the whole entire time. >> reporter: what were you