Freshman undecided major Dan Espana was coming out of the gym when the shootings happened.

“I saw some kids running out of Cole Hall,” Espana said.

Espana, who was accompanied by his friends, sophomores Paris Wilson and Eddie Sample, said he had heard the gunman was wielding a shotgun, and that it was maybe a possible hostage situation.

“Stay away from the Holmes [Student] Center and Neptune,” Sample said, restating what he had heard.

Class had just ended for freshman Adam White when he saw them running. Class had ended at 3:15 p.m., and White said he heard it happened at 3 p.m.

“I heard the shooter was a white male,” White said, saying he heard that seven or eight shots had been fired.

A mass of people rushed onto the Huskie Bus, junior Alex Ross said.

“I saw people running from Cole, towards DuSable and the bus,” Ross said. “When they got on, they were screaming and such.”

Ross said he saw one student, Troy Chamberlain, who had suffered gunshot wounds to his legs, run from Cole to DuSable Hall.

Freshman Sharon Khalil was leaving from Neptune Hall and crossing a bridge near Cole Hall when students came pouring out.

Khalil, accompanied by freshman Joshua Peter, said three wounded students had entered Neptune.

“One was Asian, and he had a headshot. People were around him with paper napkins and getting him water and sugar,” Kahlil said.

Khalil said that the other two students was shot in the leg and in the head, respectively.

Sophomore Tyler Dameron was driving home from the Campus Recreation Center.

“I saw a ton of ambulances going by,” Dameron said.

Junior Corrine Case was waiting for her 3:30 p.m. class in the vestibule of Cole Hall when she heard three loud bangs.

“It was like little explosions,” Case said, stating that she had never heard anything so loud.

Almost instantly, Case said, people started to run out of the hall.

“I knew something bad had happened,” Case said.

One student told her that someone was shooting, and Case said she ran to the top floor of Reavis Hall. Case stayed up there for 20 minutes.

“I didn’t know what to do. People were still in their classes. Do I start yelling about a shooting?” Case said, saying that when she looked outside, she saw people walking by as if nothing happened.

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