Parkland, Florida – 15 February 2018
1. Wide of friends crying and consoling one another
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Isaac Briones/Student, 15, Freshman: (Partially covered)
“I mean, it all happened so fast. I mean, one moment we were doing our projects on the computers, and the next thing we know, we hear gunshots and we run to the side of the classroom, like, so we can stay, like, away from the windows where they can see us.”
3. Mid of students sobbing, consoling one another
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Isaac Briones/Student, 15, Freshman:
“I mean, when he pulled the fire alarm, the teacher told us just to stay still. So we just stayed there until police came in and escorted us out.”
5. Tight of sign being held by Tyra Hemans, a 19-year-old senior who was friends with one of those killed
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Tyra Hemans/Student, 19, Senior:
“This is what I want. I want Congress to understand that, you took 17 lives away from me yesterday. My friend will literally never get to say, ‘I graduated high school.’ We walked into these halls freshman year together saying, ‘we got this. Four years is cake. Four years is nothing.’ We graduate in three months. He is never going to get to graduate. He will never get to graduate high school.”
7. Tight of Tyra Hemans sobbing