Joseph Oduro, a instructing assistant at Brown University, was delivering his closing remarks for his class’s final evaluate session earlier than finals when he heard one thing stunning: The sound of gunshots.
Screams rang out from exterior the classroom, Oduro instructed NCS’s Dana Bash in a Sunday interview.
Then the gunman entered the auditorium, Oduro mentioned – and locked eyes with him.
“He came in, pointed the gun, and then screamed something. I don’t know what he said, and none of the other students know what he said,” he recalled. “Then he just started shooting right after that.”
Oduro known as his college students to the entrance of the auditorium and known as 911, huddled with round 20 college students behind his desk.
“There wasn’t too much space, but we made do, because at the end of the day, we just all wanted to survive,” the 21-year-old, who helps train economics to undergraduates, mentioned. “The first couple of gunshots went straight to the chalkboard, exactly where I was standing” earlier than ducking, he mentioned.
It “felt like an eternity” earlier than the shooting stopped. Oduro mentioned he didn’t lookup till public security officers had entered the auditorium and warranted them it was secure to go away.
One scholar in his classroom sustained two gunshot wounds to the leg, he mentioned.
“My heart just goes to the students that didn’t make it out that room, the students that are in the hospital right now,” he mentioned. “I haven’t really had the chance to process things myself, but I just want to make sure everybody else is okay.”