Winnipeg shelters preparing for winter
With only enough beds to sleep one third of the unsheltered population in Winnipeg, emergency shelters are hoping to have enough beds for everyone who asks for one.
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With only enough beds to sleep one third of the unsheltered population in Winnipeg, emergency shelters are hoping to have enough beds for everyone who asks for one.
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Room and you're hearing all these gunshots? >> yes, i did. >> reporter: jerome bridges, an employee at the tops market, was inside the store when the suspected gunman opened fire and ran for the break room. >> i thought to myself, he might come busting through the door, so there's an old oak table back there that i pull up to the door with one arm and barricaded the door. >> reporter: you grabbed customers? >> actually, i told the customers to get inside, some customers to get inside the break room. i had to tell them to be quiet and just lay down on the ground, because he was getting closer a...
>> reporter: did you think you were going to die in the break room and you're hearing all these gunshots? >> yes, i did. >> reporter: jerome bridges, an employee at the tops market was inside the store when the suspected gunman opened fire and ran for the break room. >> i thought to myself he might combusting through the door. so there is an old oak table back there i put to the door with one arm and barricaded the door. >> reporter: you grabbed customers? >> actually, i told the customers to get -- some customers to get inside the break room. i had to tell them to be quiet and just lay down o...
Prosecutors present. as you said, the next step would be the grand jury proceeding. of course, all this as we're starting to hear from survivors, people who were inside the tops supermarket as the gunman came in and started firing. jerome bridges, a man i spoke to yesterday, said that as soon as he heard the gunshots, all he kept thinking about was the employees and the store shoppers and how he could get them into a room to get them away from the gunfire. >> and then that's all you heard was fire, constant firing and firing and firing. so i ran to the back part of the store, where the confere...