(Image source: CBS)
BY JASMINE BAILEY
Just minutes after Friday’s deadly shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, one Newtown resident, Gene Rosen, walked out of his front door to find six children who had escaped the school sitting at the end of his driveway.
Sky News:
“They were sitting there and I had no idea why they were there. And I went down there and there was a school bus driver and she said ‘ there’s been an incident’ and I said well just come in the house.”
WCVB:
“Rosen who is a retired physiologist took the children inside and gave them his grandchildren’s stuffed animals. Mostly, he said, he just listened.”
And that’s what he did; he listened as the children relayed to him the horrors of what had happened inside their school.
“They started talking about blood. And then they started talking about the two guns. These two boys kept repeating ‘we can’t go back to school, our teacher’s gone.’”
That teacher was 27-year-old Vicki Soto— a first grade teacher who died while protecting her students. It’s believed that she hid some of them from the shooting.
The Associated Press reports— Rosen used cell phone numbers obtained from the school bus company to call the children’s parents, who quickly came to pick them up.
(Image source: CBS)
BY JASMINE BAILEY
Just minutes after Friday’s deadly shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, one Newtown resident, Gene Rosen, walked out of his front door to find six children who had escaped the school sitting at the end of his driveway.
Sky News:
“They were sitting there and I had no idea why they were there. And I went down there and there was a school bus driver and she said ‘ there’s been an incident’ and I said well just come in the house.”
WCVB:
“Rosen who is a retired physiologist took the children inside and gave them his grandchildren’s stuffed animals. Mostly, he said, he just listened.”
And that’s what he did; he listened as the children relayed to him the horrors of what had happened inside their school.
“They started talking about blood. And then they started talking about the two guns. These two boys kept repeating ‘we can’t go back to school, our teacher’s gone.’”
That teacher was 27-year-old Vicki Soto— a first grade teacher who died while protecting her students. It’s believed that she hid some of them from the shooting.
The Associated Press reports— Rosen used cell phone numbers obtained from the school bus company to call the children’s parents, who quickly came to pick them up.
