'Blood everywhere' - Student recalls school shooting
Published:Thursday | January 16, 2014 | 12:00 AM
ROSWELL, New Mexico (AP):
STUDENTS ESCAPING chilly winter temperatures in southeastern New Mexico were congregated in the Berrendo Middle School gym, waiting for classes to start when they heard a loud pop.
Thirteen-year-olds Evan James and Kayla Koren, standing on opposite sides of the gym, said they looked up and saw blood and a fellow student on the floor, the victim of a gunshot wound to the face. A 12-year-old classmate holding a 20-gauge sawed-off shotgun stood nearby.
"I just saw blood everywhere," Essance Sosa, 12, said Tuesday. "Everyone started screaming and running."
Panic engulfed the gym and, eventually, the entire town as word spread by text and phone that a seventh-grade boy had opened fire, critically wounding an 11-year-old boy with shots to the face and neck, and hitting a 13-year-old girl in the arm.