Students at Apalachee High School recalled the harrowing moments of a school shooting on Wednesday that left four dead and nine hospitalized.
Miguel Eduardo Perichi Orta, a sophomore at Apalachee High School, recalled seeing “a huge puddle of blood in the classroom” during the massacre.
“That really, it like dropped my stomach,” he said to WXIA reporters. “It was heartbreaking to see that.”
The student added he was “upset and disappointed” over the shooting.
“If something like this can happen here, when you think it’s a normal day, it can happen anywhere, and that’s what really hurts,” he said.
Camille Nelms, a 14-year-old pupil, recalled the harrowing moment a gunman entered her classroom.
“I was crying. I didn’t want to die that way,” Nelms told WXIA. “I don’t want to meet the Lord that way.”
