Survivors of the shooting won't be OK "for a long time," says mom with 3 kids at the Madison school
Sixth-grade student Adler Jean-Charles was attending English class Monday morning at Abundant Life Christian School when the lockdown occurred.
“I heard two (gunshots),” he told CNN affiliate WISC-TV. “Some people started crying, and then we just waited until the police came and they escorted us out.”
“I was scared. Why did they do that?” he said.
The students were then taken to the hospital to be reunited with their parents, where Jean-Charles received a teddy bear. When he saw his mom, “I felt safe,” he said.
His mother, Mireille Jean-Charles, said she had two other sons also attending the school. When they were reunited, they cried and prayed together, she said.
When asked if she was OK, she shook her head and broke into tears.
“It’s sad, you know, to be home and then somebody calls you and says your kids’ school is in lockdown and a shooting, and you don’t know where they are,” she told WISC. “Thank God, they were safe. But the trauma — it’s a lot, because I’m sure they lost friends and teachers, which is not OK. And I don’t think they’ll be OK for a long time.”
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