8 hours ago9-year-old boy recalls seeing ‘a bunch of bad stuff’ during mosque attack
A nine-year-old boy recounted the moment that a deadly shooting unfolded at the Islamic Center of San Diego, where he and other children attend school.
Odai Shanah told Reuters that he heard a barrage of gunshots from outside the building before he and his classmates were ushered into a closet. They shook in fear as more than a dozen shots rang out, he said.
When the shooting finally stopped, Shanah said he heard members of a SWAT team shout from outside the classroom, “OK, open up,” before they then opened the door.
“We saw a bunch of bad stuff, people laying down and yeah, bad stuff,” Shanah said, telling the outlet they saw bodies lying on the ground as the children were escorted outside.
“My legs were shaking and my hands and my head were like hurting a lot. I felt like a rock,” he said.
All the students at the Islamic day school, known as the Bright Horizon Academy, were accounted for and unharmed, authorities said.