Survivor, witness describe FSU terror: 'Yeah, keep running,' the gunman said

One decided to "play dead" on the ground, and thought of calling her parents. Then she realized the shooter was standing over her.

Two Florida State University students recounted the horror of Thursday's deadly campus shooting, with one survivor saying the gunman told students, "Keep running."

On Friday, the two people killed in the attack were identified by family members and their representatives as Robert Morales, an FSU dining coordinator and former Leon High School football team assistant coach; and Tiru Chabba, 45, a regional vice president at Aramark Collegiate Hospitality, a campus vendor that provides college dining services.

Several others were injured, authorities said, when a student opened fire just before noon on Thursday at the Tallahassee institution. At a vigil on Friday, FSU President Richard McCullough said, "This kind of tragedy that shouldn’t happen, not here, not anywhere. We are heartbroken."

Madison Askins, an FSU urban and regional planning graduate student, was headed to the school's student union with a friend for lunch when they heard gunfire. The building contains a mall-like food court, meeting rooms and offices for student groups.

She ran, tripped, and fell to the ground, Askins said. Her friend helped her up, but she was quickly struck in the buttocks by a round, went down, and decided to "play dead," she said.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/survivor-witness-describe-fsu-terror-yeah-keep-running-gunman-said-rcna201946


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