FEB 16, 2023
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Díaz-Muñoz could see it all as the man stepped a few inches through the rear door of room 114 in Berkey Hall, the teaching room he always requested. The professor was across the classroom, teaching at the front.
“I don’t know how long he stood there,” the professor recalled. “He shot at least 15 shots, one after the other, one after the other. Bang, bang, bang.”
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He told his students to kick out the windows of the ground-floor room so they could escape. The bottom panes would not break, but those above did, and some students were able to scramble out, he said.
Others did not go. “They were trying to cover the wounds (of the injured) with their hands so they didn’t bleed to death,” Díaz-Muñoz said. “They were heroic because they could have escaped through the windows. They stayed, helping their classmates.”
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He learned later that two of his students,
Arielle Anderson and Alexandria Verner, died. Brian Fraser was shot and killed at the student union. Díaz-Muñoz believes most or all of the injured were in his class, too.
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“There is a part of me that feels like I want to go under the blankets and take more pills and not wake up for a while,” he said. “I want to not remember these scenes and not have to go teach that class.
“But there is another part of me that feels a great need, a strong need to see my students again … to see that they are alive, I need to see their faces.” He is trying to write them a letter, but is struggling with what to say.
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“It’s very different to hear in the news a statistic – three more kids died or 12 more died – than to see what I saw,” he explained.
“I think if those senators or lawmakers saw what I saw, not just hear statistics, they would be shamed into action.”
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