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husband phillip away on business she took her five kids to the westgate mall. it was a place where all of them could be entertained, the teens and the toddlers. her kids liked the chicken place, the candy store. >> it was an opportunity to walk around, kill a couple hours, and i knew that we'd go home and have naps and everybody would be happy. >> reporter: the waltons chose to move to kenya two years earlier from texas. for katherine and philip it was like going home. they were both children of missionaries and grew up in countries in west africa. they met in boarding school in africa, married in the states and started raising their family. at the time of the attack, blaze was 14 years old, ian 10, porsche 4, gigi 2 and the baby petra just 13 months old was born in kenya. their morning at the mall unfolds just as family's might. they had lunch together in the third floor food court.
it makes it look like welcome back to dateline. the walton boys had made it out of the westgate mall, which was still a scene of terror. the walton boys made it out of the westgate mall, which was still a scene of terror. but their mother, katherine, and her three girls were still trapped inside. and then, a man holding a gun approached them. the next moments would be critical. here's kate snow with the conclusion of our story. for more than four hours, catherine walton, her girls and the kenyan woman helping them huddled in a hiding space barely bigger than a bathtub closed off from the outside world, catherine didn't know she was part of a terrorist attack. all she knew was that gunmen were canvassing the mall shooting at everyone. and now a man with a gun was creeping toward her.
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unfolded and details from those who lived through it. you'll hear from two mothers who got in the cross fire. >> it was pretty terrifying. it really was. it was very, very, very fearful. >> two mothers caught on camera. >> what is going to happen? i am going to die? the kids are going to die. >> in a matter of seconds, these moms, an american and a kenyan, goal from strolling through the mall, to being forced to make life and death decisions to save themselves and their children. for katherine walton, it began like any other saturday. with her husband phillip away on business, she took their five kids to the westgate mall. it was a place where all of them could be entertained, the teens and the toddlers. her kids like the chicken place, the candy store. >> just an opportunity to walk around and. i knew that we they could go home and have naps and everybody would be happy.
>> welcome back to dateline. the walton boys had made it out of the west gate mall which was still a scene of terror. but their mother, katherine, and her three girls, were still trapped inside, and then, a man holding a gun approached them. the next moments would be critical. here is kate snow with the conclusion of our story. >> for more than four hours, katherine walton, her girls, and the kenyan woman helping them, huddled in a hiding space barely bigger than a bathtub closed off from the outside world. katherine didn't know she was part of a terrorist attack. all she knew was that gunman were convincing the mall, shooting it everyone. and now, a man with a gun was creeping toward her. >> you run to that table for hours. at some point, you hear something, you see something?
>> with just a few words between them, katherine walton and abdul haji quickly coordinated an exit strategy. >> opened fire towards the door, just to scare the tourists away. >> then it was time. >> then we hold fire, and then i tell the lady, now! and suddenly, this young gun appears out of nowhere, and i call to her to run towards me and she starts running and immediately i'm thinking what a brave girl. >> when portia got up and ran, did you have a moment where you thought, my god? >> i think i realized it was precarious, but i was also trusting that if they were telling us to run, that it was safe. >> for katherine, it was a gigantic leap of faith after shielding her daughters for four and a half hours. she knew that, to save, them she would have to let them go. the image of four year old portia running to abdul haji was one no one would soon
came all in the canyon capital and they were patrolling the building. searching for more victims. two mothers in our story both hiding with their children were hoping that their time was not running out. here's kate snow. >> >> for three and a half hours after armed gunmen stormed the west gate mall, two mothers had been trapped. katherine walton coached for cover with three young daughters under a temporary kiosk, gunman patrolling nearby and faith wambua, she and her two young children had played dead all that time. they moved once and were instantly shot at. a man approached them, faith held her position. but he wasn't a terrorist. it was a police officer. >> baby, baby, touching my daughter. baby, baby. are you okay? are you okay? and i said, wow. in my mind, i'm thinking this must be a good person, finding out if we are okay. are we alive, are we okay. then he said it's safe. it's safe. it's the police. >> her nine-year-old daughter
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