Virginia running back Michael Hollins speaks for the first time since November 13 shooting

University of Virginia shooting suspect Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. looked ‘normal’ before killing three former football teammates and wounding two other classmates, according to one of the survivors, Cavaliers running back Michael Hollins Jr.

Speaking with Good Morning America, Hollins described the November 13 shooting, which prompted him to flee the bus that was returning from a class trip to Washington DC. Upon exiting, though, Hollins immediately returned to help other passengers, which is when he saw Jones, who then shot the Virginia running back.

‘It was just a cold look,’ Hollins said, explaining that Jones said ‘nothing at all’ to him. ‘It was, I don’t know, it was just like a numb look.’

Hollins was shot in the back and subsequently required two surgeries, but has since been released from the hospital. Teammates D’Sean Perry, Devin Chandler, and Lavel Davis Jr. were all killed in the November shooting.

‘God had his hand on my life,’ Hollins told Strahan. ‘It felt so surreal, knowing I’m in the middle of Uva. campus, a place where I felt safe.’

As he explained, the firing began as the bus pulled back onto campus to let the students off following the field trip.

‘When I got up and the bus was stopping is when the gunshots started ringing out and in that moment I knew we had to, you know, get off that bus,’ Hollins said. ‘Me and another teammate were the only two to get off. I realize we’re the only two running.

‘I didn’t really think much in that moment,’ Hollins said, as he described his decision to return to the bus. ‘It was just literally an instinct and a reaction to go back.’

It was there that he saw Jones – a former Cavaliers walk-on, who was not known to Hollins prior to the shooting.

‘I mean he was just so close and I felt so hopeless and so powerless in that moment,’ Hollins said.

This combo of undated image provided by University of Virginia Athletics shows NCAA college football players, from left, Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr. and D’Sean Perry. The three Virginia football players were killed in a shooting in Charlottesville, while returning from a class trip

The violence erupted near a parking garage just after 10:15pm on November 13 as a bus full of students returned to Charlottesville

Christopher Darnell Jones Jr.,22 (pictured), is alleged to have killed three members of the football team. His father has said Jones Jr. was ‘paranoid’ and said people had been ‘picking on him’ weeks before his campus gun rampage

Jones didn’t say anything, but when he locked eyes with Hollins, the Virginia running back tried to retreat.

‘I just dropped everything and took off running,’ Hollins said.

‘I felt him hit me in my back, but I just… I knew I wasn’t going down without a fight and I found a pre-med student and that was God again.’

The pre-med student helped Hollins until medics could arrive.

‘She was there to help me,’ he said. ‘She kept me calm. You know, kept my breathing under control. [She] was checking my pulse and until the ambulance came.

Hollins would be rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery after getting hit in his small intestine and kidney.’

‘By the grace of God it missed my spine by I think two centimeters or something like that,’ Hollins said.

Hollins was shot in the back, and as doctors told him, the bullet nearly hit his spinal cord 

University of Virginia running back Mike Hollins (right) was released from the hospital last month after being wounded in an on-campus mass shooting that claimed the lives of three teammates. ‘Mike has been discharged!!!’ Brenda Hollins (left), Mike’s mother, wrote on Twitter. ‘HALLELUJAH I want to thank everyone for their prayers, text messages, and calls

Pictured: A bullet hole through the window of a tour bus where the players were killed 

It wasn’t until two days later that he learned his teammates had been killed.

‘I’ve never cried like that before,’ he said. ‘I mean, I really — I lost a brother that day. I loved Lavel with all my heart. Loved Devin with my all my heart, but D’Sean, it was different with him. It was — man, that was my brother. So it was tragic hearing that he was gone.’

Strahan asked what Hollins would tell Jones if he had the opportunity.

‘I just would love to ask if he knew the magnitude of his actions in the moment, like if he ever thought how many people would be affect the for the rest of their lives,’ Hollins said.

The shooting has changed Hollins permanently, and not just because of his injuries.

‘I’ve never been as, like I said, vulnerable or emotional, but now it’s just like I don’t really care,’ he said. ‘I can’t control it. I’m not afraid to, you know, tell my friends or my teammates, ‘I love you.’

The three players players died from a gunshot wound to the head, according to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

Jones, 23, faces second-degree murder and other charges stemming from the shooting, which set off a manhunt and 12-hour campus lockdown before Jones was apprehended in suburban Richmond. Jones is being held without bond.

The team canceled its final two games of the season as a result of the shooting.