Texas student wasn’t surprised by Santa Fe school shooting

A Santa Fe school shooting survivor has given a heartbreaking interview saying she always expected to be shot at eventually.

Paige Curry said she wasn’t at all surprised by the shooting that unfolded at her Santa Fe High School when a student opened fire on Friday, killing at least 10 people.

The 17-year-old, who was just three classrooms away from where the shooting unfolded, was on the verge of tears when she spoke to an ABC reporter in the aftermath.

Footage of the interview is now going viral after she gave a profoundly sad answer to a question about whether she thought a mass shooting would ever happen at her school.

 

Paige Curry, 17, said she wasn’t at all surprised by the shooting that unfolded at her Santa Fe High School when a student opened fire on Friday, killing at least 10 people

‘It’s been happening everywhere,’ Paige said. 

‘I’ve always kind of felt it like eventually it was going to happen here too.

‘I don’t know. I wasn’t surprised, I was just scared.’ 

Gunman Dimitrios 'Dimitri' Pagourtzis, 17, opened fire at Santa Fe High School on Friday, killing at least 10 people

Gunman Dimitrios ‘Dimitri’ Pagourtzis, 17, opened fire at Santa Fe High School on Friday, killing at least 10 people

Paige said she didn’t know what the loud banging sounds were until she heard the screams a few classrooms down.

‘I really just wanted to leave, but I thought it better to stay and hide with everyone else. 

‘I got up and I ran, and we went onto the stage and we hid backstage.

‘Then the alarm started going off, and we hid back there for a while until the (SWAT team) found us.

‘I managed to keep calm through it all. There was another girl who was just freaking out; they were struggling really hard to keep her calm. It was really – it was really scary.’ 

Gunman Dimitrios ‘Dimitri’ Pagourtzis was taken into custody soon after storming a classroom at the high school and yelling ‘surprise’ before he shot dead eight to 10 people. 

Santa Fe High School in Texas was on lockdown after a shooter stormed into a class and killed 10 people Friday morning 

Santa Fe High School in Texas was on lockdown after a shooter stormed into a class and killed 10 people Friday morning 

Students are pictured emptying their backpacks for inspection outside a row of school buses 

Students are pictured emptying their backpacks for inspection outside a row of school buses 

He was wearing a ‘Born to Kill’ T-shirt at the time as well as a trenchcoat. Pictures posted by the suspect on social media show a trenchcoat that is adorned with Nazi and Communist symbols, as well as the Japanese rising sun and the mythical creature known as the ‘cthulhu’.

Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said the 17-year-old male suspect was taken into custody and a second person of interest was detained. 

The majority of the deceased victims were students, according to Gonzalez. Ten others were wounded, among them a police officer who was reportedly shot in the shoulder. 

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says investigators also found explosive devices, including a molotov cocktail, in the school and nearby. 

The suspect told authorities after his arrest that he had intended to kill himself too, but that he lacked the courage.

Parkland activist David Hogg took to Twitter Friday morning after the Texas school shooting to warn students that politicians will now act briefly like they 'give a s**t' about gun control

Parkland activist David Hogg took to Twitter Friday morning after the Texas school shooting to warn students that politicians will now act briefly like they ‘give a s**t’ about gun control

Gonzalez tweeted that they would support the Santa Fe students after those same students participated in a nationwide walkout protest in the wake of the Parkland shooting

Gonzalez tweeted that they would support the Santa Fe students after those same students participated in a nationwide walkout protest in the wake of the Parkland shooting

Parkland activists David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez took to Twitter after the shooting to warn students that politicians will now act briefly like they ‘give a s**t’ about curbing gun violence.

‘We are fighting for you,’ Hogg tweeted.

‘Get ready for two weeks of media coverage of politicians acting like they give a shit when in reality they just want to boost their approval ratings before midterms.‏’

Gonzalez also took to Twitter saying they would support the Santa Fe students after those same students participated in a nationwide walkout protest in the wake of the Parkland shooting. 

‘Santa Fe High, you didn’t deserve this. You deserve peace all your lives, not just after a tombstone saying that is put over you,’ she tweeted.

‘You deserve more than Thoughts and Prayers, and after supporting us by walking out we will be there to support you by raising up your voices.’  



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