Minneapolis Catholic school student shot in the head asked stranger to ‘please just hold my hand’ to comfort her
A neighbor of Annunciation Catholic School who raced to the scene after hearing gunshots from his home saw kids who had been shot in the head and neck, including a young victim who begged him “please just hold my hand.”
Pat Scallen, who lives around the corner from the church, told ABC News he saw a magazine on the ground outside before throngs of panicked victims came rushing out of the front door.
Wounded children were among those escaping, including a young boy and girl who were shot in the head and a girl who took a bullet to the neck.
“They were very frightened. They wanted their mom and dad,” he told the outlet. “and I just, I sat them down and just tried to keep them calm, and I was watching them close to see if there’d be any change in their status,” he said.
He told the outlet the girl who had been shot in the head asked him, “Please just hold my hand.”
Robin Westman, 23, murdered two children and injured 17 others in Wednesday’s assault on the church, 14 of them ages 6-15.
The deranged transgender shooter took his own life after unleashing the cowardly assault.
