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8 SCHOOL LOCKDOWN Horror Stories Animated · Martin Animations

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  Speaker 1: This story happened my junior year of high school. Our
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  Speaker 1: school started pretty early in the morning, and I always
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  Speaker 1: had a very hard time getting up. Occasionally, I would
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  Speaker 1: say about once a month, I would sleep in and
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  Speaker 1: miss the bus. That meant I had to ask my
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  Speaker 1: mother to drive me to school on her way to work.
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  Speaker 1: She didn't mind, but was always a little disappointed. On
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  Speaker 1: this one particular occasion, I overslept by a lot and
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  Speaker 1: missed the bus. My class had already started, so I
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  Speaker 1: got my mom to drive me to school. When I
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  Speaker 1: got to school, I went to the front door and
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  Speaker 1: had to show my school ID to be let in.
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  Speaker 1: They then gave me a pass to get to my class,
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  Speaker 1: but I really hated walking into my class late and
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  Speaker 1: disrupting it. I always thought that was embarrassing, so what
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  Speaker 1: I would always do instead was go to my favorite bathroom,
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  Speaker 1: which was the least busiest one upstairs, and then wait
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  Speaker 1: inside the bathroom until my class was over. Then I
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  Speaker 1: would walk out during passing time and nobody would know
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  Speaker 1: I had been late. It's weird, I know, but I
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  Speaker 1: was a shy and awkward kid back then. On this
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  Speaker 1: particular day, when I arrived at the bathroom, I was
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  Speaker 1: disappointed to see that it was being cleaned by a janitor.
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  Speaker 1: I walked down the hall to a nearby storage room
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  Speaker 1: that I knew was rarely used. I went inside and
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  Speaker 1: shut the door. I went to the wall and went
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  Speaker 1: behind a few boxes of equipment. Then I took out
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  Speaker 1: my phone and my headphones to pass the time remaining
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  Speaker 1: of class, which was roughly about ten minutes. Finally, class
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  Speaker 1: time was over, and I emerged from the closet and
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  Speaker 1: back into the halls of the school. But when I did,
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  Speaker 1: the halls were empty. I walked to one of the
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  Speaker 1: main hallways nearby, which was always very crowded during passing time,
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  Speaker 1: but there was still nobody there at all. I double-checked
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  Speaker 1: my watch and the time on my phone several times
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  Speaker 1: to make sure the time was correct. It was very
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  Speaker 1: confusing to me, until I realized that we had to
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  Speaker 1: be on a lockdown of some sort. It was the
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  Speaker 1: only thing that made sense. As I approached a corner,
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  Speaker 1: I heard footsteps. I didn't know if this was a
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  Speaker 1: drill or if it was the real deal, but I
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  Speaker 1: did know I could get in trouble for being found
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  Speaker 1: in the halls, so I went back to the storage
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  Speaker 1: closet I had been hiding in. I made it back
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  Speaker 1: without being seen by whoever the footsteps belonged to. However,
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  Speaker 1: I heard them keep coming closer. I turned off the
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  Speaker 1: lights in the room and went back to hiding behind
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  Speaker 1: some boxes. I heard the footsteps get closer and closer,
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  Speaker 1: and then stop at the door. My heart was pounding
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  Speaker 1: as I hoped the door wouldn't open, but then it did.
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  Speaker 1: I tried my best to not make any noise at all.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't see what was going on at all, but
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  Speaker 1: I knew the door had been opened and someone was
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  Speaker 1: in there with me. The room was not all that big,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm guessing they were about 15 feet away from me.
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  Speaker 1: Each second that went by while I was in there
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  Speaker 1: felt like a minute. I heard nothing at all, but
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  Speaker 1: I could see light in the room and the door
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  Speaker 1: was still open. I also hadn't heard anybody walk away.
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  Speaker 1: I was so scared that I thought about just giving
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  Speaker 1: myself up. hoping that it was somebody on the school
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  Speaker 1: staff that was in there, but I had a strong
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  Speaker 1: feeling that it wasn't, and I kept silent. Finally, I
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  Speaker 1: heard the footsteps walk back to the door and leave.
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  Speaker 1: I stayed in the room and laid in the same
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  Speaker 1: position for at least another 15 minutes or so. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: I could barely hear an announcement come over the school intercom,
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  Speaker 1: followed by the sound of students walking down the hallway.
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  Speaker 1: I then came out of my hiding place and joined
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  Speaker 1: in with the rest of the students. I found a
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  Speaker 1: few of my friends and asked them what happened. They
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  Speaker 1: told me all they heard was that a suspicious man
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  Speaker 1: had been arrested in our school. I went about the
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  Speaker 1: rest of my day at school just like any other
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  Speaker 1: and I never told anybody what I had experienced. This
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  Speaker 1: happened around five years ago. I was in eighth grade
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  Speaker 1: at the time and in middle school. It was a
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  Speaker 1: normal day in the fifth period when I needed to
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  Speaker 1: go to the bathroom. I asked my teacher if I
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  Speaker 1: could go to the bathroom, and she said yes. I
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  Speaker 1: walked out of the classroom and down the hall. When
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  Speaker 1: I got to the bathroom, I went into a stall
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  Speaker 1: and closed the door. After about 30 seconds, I heard
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  Speaker 1: the door to the bathroom open. I thought it was
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  Speaker 1: another student, so I stayed quiet and I heard the
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  Speaker 1: person's shoes on the floor. They sounded like boots. I
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  Speaker 1: was a little curious because not many people wore boots
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  Speaker 1: at our school. The person didn't even go into a stall.
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  Speaker 1: He just stood outside by the door. I looked under
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  Speaker 1: the stall door and saw that it was a fully
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  Speaker 1: grown man standing by the door. He saw me look
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  Speaker 1: and then walked to my stall. He started banging on
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  Speaker 1: it and I got super freaked out. Then he stopped.
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  Speaker 1: After about two minutes, I heard the bathroom door open
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  Speaker 1: and the man leave. I went to call my friend,
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  Speaker 1: but as soon as I unlocked my phone, the intercom
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  Speaker 1: came on. The person over the intercom told us there
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  Speaker 1: was a high-level lockdown and that there was a person
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  Speaker 1: in the building who wasn't supposed to be there. I
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  Speaker 1: stood on the toilet, as we were supposed to do
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  Speaker 1: in a lockdown if we were in the bathroom. I
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  Speaker 1: stood there for 10 minutes or so until the lady
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  Speaker 1: on the intercom told us that the lockdown was over.
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  Speaker 1: I still wonder to this day if the man in
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  Speaker 1: the bathroom was the person who caused the lockdown. It
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  Speaker 1: was one of the scariest moments of my life. The
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  Speaker 1: story that I'm about to tell you took place when
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  Speaker 1: I was in middle school. It was during the spring semester,
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  Speaker 1: and it was a day that I had a dentist appointment.
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  Speaker 1: I went to my first class of the day, and
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  Speaker 1: then got a pass to leave the school and go
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  Speaker 1: to my appointment. My mother was waiting at the front
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  Speaker 1: door of the school, and when the time came, drove
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  Speaker 1: me to the dentist. I was hoping that my mother
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  Speaker 1: would allow me to just go home after my dentist
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  Speaker 1: appointment and skip the rest of the school day, but
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  Speaker 1: she said no. It was most likely because it was
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  Speaker 1: earlier in the day. I got back to school during
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  Speaker 1: my third class period. I got let in the front
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  Speaker 1: door and then made my way to my classroom, which
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  Speaker 1: was on the other end of the school. As I
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  Speaker 1: was walking past one of the side doors, I noticed
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  Speaker 1: a man wave at me from outside. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what I was thinking, but I walked over to the
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  Speaker 1: door and opened it for the man. He smiled and
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  Speaker 1: said thanks to me. Then I kept walking to my class.
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  Speaker 1: I got to my class and only about 10 minutes
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  Speaker 1: later we got an announcement that we were in a lockdown.
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  Speaker 1: I immediately got a bad feeling remembering the man I
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  Speaker 1: had let in. We did what we were supposed to
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  Speaker 1: do in a lockdown and went to the back of
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  Speaker 1: the classroom and turned all of the lights off. I
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  Speaker 1: could tell by how our teacher was acting that it
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  Speaker 1: seemed serious. We stayed there for about 30 minutes and
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  Speaker 1: finally the lockdown ended. I heard afterwards that the same
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  Speaker 1: man I had led into the building was found hiding
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  Speaker 1: in a bathroom with a weapon. Thankfully, nobody was harmed,
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  Speaker 1: but I learned a valuable lesson not to let anybody inside.
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  Speaker 1: This story happened to me when I was a freshman
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  Speaker 1: in high school. It's still the scariest moment of my life.
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  Speaker 1: It was about a month into the school year, and
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  Speaker 1: it was a Friday. I remember that I was in
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  Speaker 1: my second hour class. It was math and we had
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  Speaker 1: a test that day. I was pretty good at math
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  Speaker 1: back then and I was able to finish the test
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  Speaker 1: pretty quickly. I felt good about it and I saw
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  Speaker 1: that we still had 30 minutes of class left. I
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  Speaker 1: asked the teacher if I could go to my locker
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  Speaker 1: to put my math stuff away. She said yes and
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  Speaker 1: I headed out the door. I was in no hurry
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  Speaker 1: to get back to class knowing we wouldn't do anything
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the period. So I planned on taking
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  Speaker 1: my time going to my locker and back. I walked
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  Speaker 1: slowly to my locker, which was on the other end
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  Speaker 1: of school. The hallways were completely empty and quiet as
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  Speaker 1: I walked through them. I got to my locker and
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  Speaker 1: put my books back. I got some gum out of
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  Speaker 1: my locker and then started to head back to the classroom.
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  Speaker 1: Our school had two floors, and I remember that one
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  Speaker 1: of my best friends had a class right above the
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  Speaker 1: freshman lockers. I went upstairs to wave at him from
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  Speaker 1: the hallway, but when I got to his classroom, the
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  Speaker 1: door was shut and the lights were off. I figured
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  Speaker 1: the class must be in a computer lab or something.
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  Speaker 1: When I walked down the rest of the hallway, I
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  Speaker 1: noticed that all the classroom doors were shut and the
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  Speaker 1: lights were all off. I figured we must be having
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  Speaker 1: a lockdown drill. We usually had fire drills and lockdown
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  Speaker 1: drills early in the school year. I knew I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be out in the halls during lockdown drills,
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  Speaker 1: so I started to walk back to my math class.
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  Speaker 1: After I got down the stairs, I heard footsteps. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to get in trouble so I went under
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  Speaker 1: the stairs to hide. There was a little area underneath
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  Speaker 1: the stairs that was pretty open but at the same
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  Speaker 1: time you couldn't really see from the halls. I saw
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  Speaker 1: it was a teacher walking down the halls. He was
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  Speaker 1: going pretty fast and had a concerned look on his face.
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  Speaker 1: He must have been looking for kids in the halls
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  Speaker 1: is what I thought. He then went back up the stairs.
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  Speaker 1: What concerned me was that he actually started to run
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  Speaker 1: to go back up the stairs. The thought then occurred
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  Speaker 1: to me that maybe this lockdown wasn't a drill. I
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  Speaker 1: decided to keep going back to my classroom. I got
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  Speaker 1: to the sophomore locker commons which were just in front
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  Speaker 1: of the math hall. But after I walked about 10
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  Speaker 1: feet into the commons, I noticed a man standing in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of them with his back to me about
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  Speaker 1: 100 feet away. I didn't recognize him, and he wasn't
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  Speaker 1: dressed at all like a teacher or a staff member.
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  Speaker 1: He had longer hair and was wearing boots with dirty
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  Speaker 1: jeans and a black hoodie. He was just standing there
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  Speaker 1: looking at one of the lockers. I stood there, unable
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  Speaker 1: to move for a second. I didn't know if he
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  Speaker 1: had heard me or not. I started to turn around
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  Speaker 1: to go back when the man punched the locker with
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  Speaker 1: his fist and then started to turn around. This stunned
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  Speaker 1: me and I quickly hid behind a row of lockers
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  Speaker 1: next to me. He started to walk closer. I ducked
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  Speaker 1: down and held my breath. My heart was pounding out
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  Speaker 1: of my chest. I heard his footsteps get closer and closer.
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  Speaker 1: He then opened up a locker. He sounded to be
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  Speaker 1: about two rows over from me. I really didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to stay there for him to find me and I
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  Speaker 1: made up my mind that I was going to make
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  Speaker 1: a run for it. I listened to make sure he
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  Speaker 1: was far enough away, but it suddenly got silent. It
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  Speaker 1: was silent for what felt like forever. I tried my
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  Speaker 1: best not to breathe or move a muscle. Finally, I
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  Speaker 1: heard his footsteps start again. They were getting closer. I
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  Speaker 1: couldn't take it anymore, and I got out from the
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  Speaker 1: lockers and took off running. I ran back the way
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  Speaker 1: I came and took a left, which led to the
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  Speaker 1: front doors. I heard the man's footsteps start pounding on
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  Speaker 1: the floor behind me, I ran as fast as I
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  Speaker 1: could and didn't look back, all the while hearing him
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  Speaker 1: about 20 feet away. Finally, I got to the steps
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  Speaker 1: leading to the lunchroom and out to the front door.
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  Speaker 1: I sprinted to the front door to see a police
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  Speaker 1: car right outside. An officer saw me and the man
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  Speaker 1: chasing me and ran in the door and grabbed me,
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  Speaker 1: while another officer ran past. The man stopped chasing me
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  Speaker 1: and ran the other direction, but didn't make it far
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  Speaker 1: as he was caught. I ended up having to answer
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  Speaker 1: a lot of questions, but we all got out of
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  Speaker 1: school early that day. It turns out the man was
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  Speaker 1: on drugs and was trying to break into the lockers
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  Speaker 1: to steal things. My teacher and principal weren't even mad
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  Speaker 1: at me and were just happy that I was safe.
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  Speaker 2: When I was about 10 years old, me and my
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  Speaker 2: family moved from West Palm Beach, Florida to a suburban
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  Speaker 2: area outside of Denver, Colorado. We had planned on moving
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  Speaker 2: years ago and we did so as it was getting
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  Speaker 2: really expensive to live in Florida no matter where you were.
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  Speaker 2: My parents liked Colorado as that's where most of my
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  Speaker 2: family lived and they had also found a really good
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  Speaker 2: school for me to go to which had great ratings.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to mention the name of the school
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  Speaker 2: for privacy reasons but let's just say that it was
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  Speaker 2: a fairly new school. It was about 5 miles from
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  Speaker 2: our new house so I could practically walk there without
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  Speaker 2: having to rely on any sort of transportation. The new
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  Speaker 2: school was far better than the one I originally went to.
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  Speaker 2: Nicer students, nicer teachers, and it was very easy for
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  Speaker 2: me to talk to new friends. There was one of
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  Speaker 2: my teachers, who we'll call Mr. Smith, who was my
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  Speaker 2: math teacher, who I really made a great connection with.
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  Speaker 2: I hated math, I mean, who doesn't, but Mr. Smith
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  Speaker 2: made math a lot more fun. He'd be willing to
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  Speaker 2: help people in class no matter how many times someone asked,
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  Speaker 2: and I'd also like to mention that he was hands
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  Speaker 2: down one of the best teachers throughout the school. I
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  Speaker 2: only wish I still had him as a teacher after
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  Speaker 2: what happened this one day. It was a Friday, which
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  Speaker 2: just so happened to be the last day before spring break.
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  Speaker 2: I was in my second to last class with my
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  Speaker 2: English teacher when our principal came on the speaker and
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  Speaker 2: told the school that this was a code red and
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  Speaker 2: that all students should get inside the classroom immediately. I'm
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  Speaker 2: pretty sure no one in my class has ever been
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  Speaker 2: in a real lockdown before, so we were all huddled
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  Speaker 2: in the corner. A few people were so scared that
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  Speaker 2: they actually started to cry, thinking they were going to
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  Speaker 2: get harmed. My teacher told everyone to be quiet and
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  Speaker 2: to not make any noise for any reason. It felt
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  Speaker 2: like an eternity sitting in the corner, waiting for the all-clear. However,
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  Speaker 2: I then began to hear heavy footsteps from down the hall.
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  Speaker 2: The only reason as to why I could hear it
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  Speaker 2: was because I was the closest to the back door.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know if anyone else heard it but I
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  Speaker 2: looked through the little glass window on the door to
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  Speaker 2: see a man dressed in all black. However, I couldn't
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  Speaker 2: see his face as he was wearing a hoodie but
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  Speaker 2: I instantly knew that he was up to no good.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know how it happened but he turned his
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  Speaker 2: head toward my direction and must have caught me looking
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  Speaker 2: at him from the window. He came right up to
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  Speaker 2: the door and started pounding on it. The whole class
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  Speaker 2: screamed and cried while the man kept trying to bust
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  Speaker 2: down the door. However, I knew there was a slim
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  Speaker 2: chance of that as these doors are bulletproof and meant
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  Speaker 2: to be almost impossible to break open from one person.
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  Speaker 2: After several bangs and kicks to the door, he had
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  Speaker 2: finally given up and walked away. The principal then came
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  Speaker 2: back on and said it wasn't all clear. Now, this
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  Speaker 2: is where the disturbing part comes in. Apparently, a man
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  Speaker 2: had just broken into a nearby gas station and had
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  Speaker 2: shot the employee. I later learned that four people, two
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  Speaker 2: of them being teachers, had been shot. One of those
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  Speaker 2: teachers was Mr. Smith. I was told that he was
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  Speaker 2: escorted to the hospital by paramedics. However, he had unfortunately
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  Speaker 2: died in the hospital two days later due to loss
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  Speaker 2: of blood from the wound. I still have no idea
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  Speaker 2: if the man was ever caught or not, but I'd
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  Speaker 2: like to think he was. My condolences go out to Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Smith's family and relatives. It's really sad to know that
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  Speaker 2: such a great person with a happy personality got taken
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  Speaker 2: away from a school who adored him.
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  Speaker 1: In my early days of high school, I used to
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  Speaker 1: get to school super early in the winter because my
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  Speaker 1: older brother had basketball practice before school. I would usually
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  Speaker 1: just sit in a spot upstairs that overlooked the east
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  Speaker 1: entrance to the school and watch the sun rise. I
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  Speaker 1: found it peaceful and relaxing. On this particular day, I
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  Speaker 1: noticed a man walk into the school carrying a briefcase.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't recognize him as a teacher, so I was
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  Speaker 1: trying to figure out who he was. He then walked
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  Speaker 1: into the doors and went upstairs. He looked kind of
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  Speaker 1: surprised when he saw me staring at him. He smiled
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  Speaker 1: at me and told me he was substituting today. We
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  Speaker 1: shook hands and he walked away down the hall. After
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  Speaker 1: a while, it was time to go to class. My
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  Speaker 1: first period was English. About 15 minutes into class, I
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  Speaker 1: got a bloody nose. I would get them a lot
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  Speaker 1: in the winter with the dry air and the teacher
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  Speaker 1: let me go to the bathroom. I went to the
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  Speaker 1: bathroom and held my nose over the sink and waited
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  Speaker 1: for it to go away. As I was in the bathroom,
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  Speaker 1: I noticed someone was in the far stall. I saw
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  Speaker 1: a suitcase on the ground in the stall. Then I
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  Speaker 1: remembered where I saw it before. It was the substitute teacher's.
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  Speaker 1: I found it really odd that he would take his
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  Speaker 1: suitcase into the bathroom with him and that he would
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  Speaker 1: be in the bathroom at all 15 minutes into class
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  Speaker 1: when he was supposed to be teaching. After about 2
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  Speaker 1: or 3 minutes, my nose was all better and I
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  Speaker 1: washed my hands and started to head back to class.
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  Speaker 1: The man in the stall remained silent and still the
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  Speaker 1: entire time I was in the bathroom. I walked back
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  Speaker 1: to class and sat down. We started discussing a video
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  Speaker 1: we had watched. Not even ten minutes passed by when
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  Speaker 1: the teacher said we were on a lockdown. She turned
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  Speaker 1: off all the lights in the room and locked the doors.
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  Speaker 1: All of us went into the corner of the room.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: It was completely silent. The teacher finally told us that
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: a suspicious man was seen walking in the halls of
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: the school. Seconds felt like minutes when we were all
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: sitting there. It didn't take me long to realize who
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: the man probably was. After about 30 minutes, they announced
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: the lockdown was over. I went to the principal's office
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: to report what I saw earlier. I then found out
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: that the man seen in the halls was indeed the
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: same man I had met and seen earlier that day.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: When a teacher saw him in the halls, he ran
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: the other direction. The police were called and the man
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: was apprehended. The scariest part of this is that they
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: found a gun in his suitcase. It scares me to
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: think how close I came to him when he was
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: hiding in the bathroom.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: About three years ago, I had just started my senior
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: year in high school. It was most definitely the year
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: I'd been looking forward to throughout my high school career.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: No more bullying, more freedom, fun activities, and one step
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: closer to becoming an adult. I say no more bullying
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: as the school I attended didn't have the nicest students
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: and when you're a senior, you don't really get picked
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: on as much. I'd also like to mention that our
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: school was located in an area that wasn't so great.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: What I mean by that was that there would always
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: be reports of break-ins, and sirens would often be heard
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: at least three times a week. You get the picture.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: It was the middle of April, which happened to be
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: the time where all the seniors were getting ready to
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: graduate in June. I was most certainly looking forward to
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: graduation day. No more huge amounts of homework, and no
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: more of those low-quality school lunches. One day, I was
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: in school in my pre-calculus class. We were in our
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: class listening to our teacher lecture about what to expect
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: in trigonometry for college when we heard our assistant principal
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: come on the speaker. She said that a nearby homeowner
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: reported a suspicious looking individual lurking near a school who
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: was possibly armed. Needless to say, the whole school went
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: on lockdown and our teacher told us to follow all
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: lockdown procedures. Our class had this big closet enough for
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: at least 20 people, so our teacher told us to
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: hide in there until the all clear. we all hid
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: in the closet waiting waiting for something to happen and
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: eventually it did fast forward to about 10 minutes later
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: we're all still hiding when we hear a loud bang
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: from down the hall i instantly identified the sound as
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: being a gunshot most of the class knew it as
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: well All of a sudden, we hear the little glass
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: window of our door shatter. Gunshots began firing inside the
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: room for nearly about 30 seconds. Thank God none of
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: the bullets hit the closet door. The shooter, whoever they were,
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: ran away followed by more gunshots. This continued for around
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: another good minute before we hear three or four men
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: ordering for someone to get down on the ground. Turns
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: out they were police officers. They put the man in
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: cuffs and ordered the students out of the school. As
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: we were walking out of the class, students flooded the hallway,
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: bawling their eyes out, but surprisingly, nobody was hurt. Ever
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: since that day, nothing has ever happened to our school.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: I graduated soon after, and thank God as to how
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: grateful I was to still be alive, as things could
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: have turned out a whole lot worse.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Last year, I was a senior in high school. During
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: fifth period, I was a teacher's assistant for a science class.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: I would usually do whatever the teacher asked me to,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: like grading assignments or cleaning the lab tables. Other times,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: I would just do my homework or chill. It was
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: a nice break from normal class. On this day, the
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: science class went on a field trip, and I didn't
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: really want to go, so the teacher let me stay
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: back in her room and grade papers. I worked for
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: about 20 minutes and then took a bathroom break. I
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: got back to the room and began to grade more
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: papers when the phone to the classroom rang. I picked
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: it up. It was a recorded message from the principal
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: sent to all classrooms saying they were going on lockdown
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: as a suspicious male was seen on school grounds. I
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: followed the directions and shut the door, locked it, and
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: turned off all the lights. I was a little nervous
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: being as I was all by myself in the classroom,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: but I knew the door was locked and I should
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: be okay. I tried to take my mind off it
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: by going back to grading papers. I turned on a
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: little lamp on the desk for light. I got through
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: about three more papers when I heard a noise come
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: from the back of the classroom. The room was kind
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: of big and had desks with lab tables behind them.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: I knew my mind was playing tricks on me, and
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: I kept working. Then I heard something again. This time
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: I knew it wasn't my imagination. I looked closely around
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: the classroom. When I got to the back corner lab table,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: I saw it. There was a man's shoe and part
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: of his leg that I could barely see. I was
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: frozen and didn't know what to do. I wanted to
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: run for the door, but I didn't know if I
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: could make it and unlock it in time if he
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: chased me. The teacher's desk was kind of far from
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: the door, but I knew I had to risk it.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: I didn't want to stay in the room with him.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: I counted to three and then got up and calmly
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: walked to the door. About three steps from the door
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: and I heard more noises as if the man was
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: getting up. At that point, I reached for the door
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: as fast as I could, unlocked it and opened it.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: I slammed it shut behind me and ran as fast
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: as I could down the hall. I heard the door
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: open behind me. I saw the nearest staircase and ran
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: upstairs hoping to lose the man if he was following me.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: I didn't even know if he was chasing me, but
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: I was scared out of my mind. I got upstairs
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: and pounded on the nearest classroom door. The teacher let
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: me in after about 10 seconds. The man did not
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: follow me upstairs. I got in the room and explained
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: everything as fast as I could to the teacher, who
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: then made a call to inform the principal. It ended
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: up being too late and the man was able to escape.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: I figure he snuck in the classroom as I went
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: to the bathroom, and I don't know if he had
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: intentions to harm me or not, but I'm just glad
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: that I'm okay.