Tumbler Ridge Grade 12 student describes being barricaded in classroom
Tumbler Ridge student, mother describe school lockdown during mass shooting
Darian Quist, a Grade 12 student at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, and his mother, Shelley Quist, spoke to Radio West host Sarah Penton. Darian described how he and his classmates barricaded the doors while the school was under lockdown. His mother, Shelley, said she stayed with Darian on the phone and could hear the moment police came to escort them to safety.
Darian Quist, a Grade 12 student at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, and his mother Shelley Quist, spoke to CBC Radio West host Sarah Penton about what happened.
Darian said shortly after he got to his class at 1:30 p.m. local time, an alarm sounded in the hallways with instructions to close the doors because of a lockdown.
He said the doors were closed for a while, when he and his classmates realized something was wrong.
He said he was receiving photos on his phone from the scene.
“We got tables and barricaded the doors” for over two hours, he said, until police arrived to escort them out of the school.
Once outside, he met up with his mother at the community centre a few hundred metres away.