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Possibly; if they had known exactly which room. I would think that a lot of the first 10 minutes was chaos, even for staff and security/LEO. About the time they could have figured out which room or even which area the shooting was from, according to reports the shooting stopped.

My three kids and I were feeding horses one afternoon and bullets started flying around us, hitting the dirt. I grew up around firearms and shooting, but it took a bit for me to realize we were being shot at. Took a little more of a bit for me to figure out what direction bullets were likely coming from and get my kids behind barn. Then I decided to make a run for the house to call LEO and arm myself.

I had a hard time processing each step...and they were simple steps. I should have known they were bullets right away since I was familiar with firearms; but not expecting that, I had to process it. I should have known right away where they were coming from because 3 directions were cow pastures and only one direction was a road and other houses. I had to decide whether to try to run to the house (through the bullets) with the kids or hide them behind the barn. I had to decide whether to just hide behind the barn with the kids and hope for the best or make a run to the house to call LEO and get myself armed.

Luckily we were all safe, shooting finally stopped. I had no idea why anyone would do that. I would have returned fire but didn’t see anyone, couldn’t tell exactly where the shooter was. As it turns out a man that had never lived in the country or had firearms had moved into one of the houses about 1/2 mile away. He had bought a rifle and was target shooting to learn how to shoot and had put up a berm- not tall enough obviously. He was target shooting up a storm and had no clue his bullets were going across the road and hitting all around us. The deputy that came out on my call went over there and figured out what was going on. Funny part was the guy argued with the deputy that it wasn’t his bullets flying at us. He was convinced his bullets would not go that far! The deputy had to show him on the box where it said how far they could go- as I recall he was shooting a .22 and distance was a mile.

Craziest thing I have ever had happen to me, but I can honestly say I have been under fire and it confuses the heck out of your brain. I had no idea the shooting at us was not intentional and pretty sure he was closer to hitting us without trying than he could have been if he had been aiming for us. It felt like everything was in slow motion to me, and I had to think my way through, I didn’t feel like any of my automatic reactions were working.