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Some of the parents, what they heard, what the phone calls they were receiving from the kids as they were trying to rush to the scene to protect their kids. let's listen to this. >> it was very emotional. i was so concerned. it is one of our fears as parents to send our kids to school. now and not know they're safe. almost makes you want to pull them out and home school them. but, you know this is the world we live in. >> 22 school shootings, that's what this shooting brings, this school shooting brings a number to just this year. josh, one -- another theme that i'm hearing from the students t...

My mom. because i thought i was going to have -- i was having an asthma attack and i just wanted to be safe. >> i was upstairs. and i just, like, i heard the fire alarm go off and i thought it was a fire drill. i left my bag and stuff inside and then i, like, went downstairs and then i met up with him and then all these teachers like telling us to get back. i didn't know what was going on. i thought the school was on fire. and then we just heard gunshots go off, so he grabbed my hand and we took off running towards the bushes. >> the first we're hearing on camera from students inside of santa ...

At us to get across the street, across the highway into the ditches as far away as we could get as possible to be safe. we just thought it was a fire drill because i was so far away i didn't hear the shots. then we immediately saw so many cop cars and sheriffs arriving and we knew immediately that something was wrong, that it wasn't just a fire. >> did you -- leyla, did you know this shooter who is apparently a 17-year-old young man who was a student at the school? >> i did not. i haven't even heard who they believe it was, but no. >> how are your friends doing? this must be such an awful expe...

At the hospital standing by very close, whatever. i'm sure those calls have probably been going out, especially in galveston around that level 1 trauma center. >> sanjay, listen to some more of the eyewitness accounts of what happened. listen to this. >> we heard the alarms. everybody just started leaving, following the same procedure as we did because nobody thought it would be this. nobody thought it was a shooting. everybody just thought it was a normal procedure or practice fire drill. and next thing you know, we just hear so many -- three gunshots, a lot of explosions and teachers were te...

Such as assistant principal and principal telling us to run and get across highway 6, just get as far away from the school as we could. and we all just, we knew that something was much more wrong than just a fire. we immediately saw 15 cop cars and sheriffs, immediately just heading to the school. we just had no idea what was happening. >> harris: did you hear anyone saying anything, screaming anything? >> at that point it was just all of us, as students, talking to each other, trying to understand what was happening. because we could tell that it wasn't just a fire. we all thought it was a fi...