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A subsister of the mass shooting that killed 2 students and wounded 9 others connected the Brown University field successful Rhode Island described the infinitesimal helium was changeable successful the backmost during the attack.
Jacob Spears, a freshman astatine Brown studying applied mathematics and machine science, told CBS News that aft eating that fateful Saturday, helium attended a survey league successful the Barus & Holley engineering building. He said the league ended and the students were lasting up to permission erstwhile the shooting started.
Spears said astatine first, erstwhile the shooting began, helium "was confused," but past helium realized what was happening and started to run.
"He got maine successful the back," Spears said, adding that adrenaline spurred him and pushed him to proceed moving retired of the building. "I was capable to get up and run, adjacent with the shot."
He said 2 radical — a begetter and a lad — helped him and enactment unit connected his wound. Spears said helium past called 911 and waited for the ambulance to arrive. He besides called his household portion helium waited.
Brown University freshman Jacob Spears survived a shooting that killed 2 students and wounded 9.
CBS News
"I was conscionable focused connected breathing," helium said of erstwhile assistance arrived, and helium fto everyone bash their occupation arsenic helium was transported to the hospital. He said helium went into country close away.
Spears, who is from Evans, Georgia, and the lone idiosyncratic from his precocious schoolhouse people to be an Ivy League university, said his gramps was astatine the infirmary with him.
He said helium is progressing dilatory and each time is getting better. He was slated to spell backmost location connected Wednesday but present helium astir apt volition walk the holidays successful the hospital, conscionable grateful "to beryllium alive," helium said.
The 2 students killed successful the shooting person been identified arsenic Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov. Umurzokov was known for his crisp intellect, benignant bosom and quiescent willingness to assistance anyone successful need, the American Uzbekistan Association said successful a post connected societal media. Cook, the vice president of Brown's College Republicans, was "incredibly grounded and generous," her section religion said.
Authorities person released photos and videos of a imaginable idiosyncratic of interest as the manhunt for the gunman continues. The FBI has besides offered a $50,000 reward for accusation starring to the identification, apprehension and condemnation of the gunman.
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