John Lewis
Appearances
Sword and Scale
Episode 279
When I laid her down, my daughter was there. I yelled at her, give me something to plug her holes with. And so my daughter ran to the house and it felt so fast. And I looked at Lauren, or Kayla, and I said, you're a champ. You're going to be fine. We're going to get you fixed up. You're a champion. And by that time, I looked up and here came my daughter with the rag to, you know, stop the bleeding.
Sword and Scale
Episode 279
That's when I kind of came to a little bit more and realized that all hell's breaking loose. There was just people everywhere, kids crying. I just have to say, this guy is a hero. He was on scene long before the first responders or the police. And thank God he was, but...
Sword and Scale
Episode 279
I was actually in my backyard on my patio and I was prepping for my daughter's 13th birthday party.
Sword and Scale
Episode 279
She actually went down Kingston. She just bought her a bicycle, and she didn't want to pop the tiger, so she didn't drive down the alley because there was glass, so she took Kingston Street and rode her bike down that way.
Sword and Scale
Episode 279
As I went to open the door, gunshots, like I told the police, low caliber, semi-automatic kind of a weapon was firing. All military training I ever had kind of kicked in. The first one wasn't a shot, and then a second later maybe is when they all just let loose. They all... I got fired off in rapid succession. It was fast. It was real fast. Three to five seconds, maybe, all of them. Maybe.
Sword and Scale
Episode 279
The .22 has kind of a short crack sound to it. The 9mm has, it's a little heavier and a little more chunkier of a sound.
Sword and Scale
Episode 279
I instantly dropped the cups, and I knew the kids were getting out of school. I knew the direction, which was the shopper coming from was the alley. I dropped the cups, and I instantly ran to, I had a six-foot privacy fence. And I jumped over my six, I climbed up and jumped over my six-foot privacy fence.
Sword and Scale
Episode 279
I saw Lauren. Well, I didn't know her name at the time. I thought I just saw a young girl laying there. And I ran to her. As I ran to her, after doing the events, I ran to her, kind of got like a tunnel vision. When I ran, I didn't know. I didn't look at no cars. I was just kind of not there. And I ran there. I didn't know if there was another shooter. I didn't know. I just knew there was kids.
Sword and Scale
Episode 279
I saw a little girl laying there. And when I approached Lauren... When I got to Lauren, the military train kicked in where I was supposed to, you know, use that situation, see what's going on, see if there's another active shooter, are there other people wounded, check the person that you come up on.
Sword and Scale
Episode 279
And I noticed that I'm not a doctor, I'm not a nurse, I'm not an RN or anything, but my train, I know when someone's gone. There are signs you look for. One is their blood, like a massive amount of blood. So the heart stops, it's not going to push the blood around. I didn't see much of any on her. The way she was laying, if I remember correctly, it was her wrist.
Sword and Scale
Episode 279
It was in a pinch position where anybody was conscious or was alive, they wouldn't want her to be in that kind of position.
Sword and Scale
Episode 279
And what we referred to in the Army when I was with the infantry as the death place or the death stair. The feeling of the entry, like when I got there, it just kind of felt like going into a bubble, a bubble, and it felt just like death. Just, I didn't hear anything really. I didn't, it's just, it was a flat feeling where it's, you know, something just died or something just happened.
Sword and Scale
Episode 279
I heard a child off my left side come down from the alley saying, another child was shot. And I looked up and that's when I saw Michaela. She was standing there. And I ran to her and I put, laid her down.