'Everyone started running and pushing me over. We all was in the corner and we was quiet.'Ī female student, Tiyanna Osborne, said gunshots rang out around lunchtime and she was pushed to the ground in the rush to get outside 'Then they said it is a shooter in the school. 'We heard on the announcements 'lockdown, lockdown.' At first, we thought it was a drill,' Jayden Swilling said to 13NewsNow. And then we heard another announcement telling the teachers to take roll.' 'Then we heard an announcement from the principal and he told us that we were in a lockdown. 'We sat down for like five minutes and that's when a cop came in and told us to stay down,' 15-year-old student Jordan Gaston said. Other students also took time to recount what had happened when Monday morning class turned into madness. I'm disappointed because everybody in here's life just got put in danger because of one student wanting to bring a gun to school.' They got to bring it into the school with other students. Everybody in here's life just got put in danger over one student wanting to bring a gun to the school,' Heritage High School senior Dominic Banks told the Virginian-Pilot.

… No one would want to go through these circumstances.' 'Just seeing the faces of our students and how afraid they were under these circumstances and our staff who were traumatized. 'No superintendent, no teacher or principal would want to ever go through this situation,' Superintendent George Parker said. Word of the shooting spread quickly on social media and families quickly began gathering outside the school, anxious to learn if their children were safe. A woman watches as Newport News police officers and Virginia state troopers respond to the scene of a shooting at Heritage High School in Newport News

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