“I just want everyone to know that this is the reality of the world that we’re living in right now. Things like this do happen.'
CLEVELAND, Ohio - Junior Lexy Alston tells 19 News she was in her Broadcast Journalism Class on the set when she and her classmates got the alert to lockdown and shelter in place due to an active shooter on campus.
“That’s not the type of thing you’re going to expect to happen on your campus. So it was like, I was not believing in at first and finally, like, my professor got a police alert and I’m like, this is real. This is not a drill. This is actually happening right now. And that’s when I was like, this is happening. This is real,” she said.“In the Comms Arts building, the doors don’t actually lock so my professor who was Laurie Dickerson, she had already planned for events.
“There was just too much unknowingness like to feel safe and comfortable, especially being on campus. And of course, we had, my phone was blowing up. Be safe, be safe. So that was freaking me out. You know, everyone was calling their parents saying they love you crying, just not knowing if you’re gonna make it home was terrifying,” she said.“I just want everyone to know that this is the reality of the world that we’re living in right now. Things like this do happen.
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