with my husband. i never thought i d see our second anniversary, but we did. this incident brought us more closer. we don t want to leave each other s side. faith and her children were reunited with that police officer who reached out to her on that terrible day, grateful he risked his life to save theirs. welcome home! i remember that sound. the waltons too, said they were grateful for friends, new and old. especially young portia, who beamed when we showed her a picture of her rescuer on a smartphone. is that mr. haji? what did he do? he saved us! he saved you! how are you? good, how are you? nice to see you. three days after the worst day of their lives, the walton s were reunited with their hero. how are you? abdul haji is himself a
with just a few words between them, katherine walton and abdul haji quickly coordinated an exit strategy. opened fire towards the door, just to scare the tourists away. then it was time. then we hold fire, and then i tell the lady, now! and suddenly, this young gun appears out of nowhere, and i call to her to run towards me and she starts running and immediately i m thinking what a brave girl. when portia got up and ran, did you have a moment where you thought, my god? i think i realized it was precarious, but i was also trusting that if they were telling us to run, that it was safe. for katherine, it was a gigantic leap of faith after shielding her daughters for four and a half hours. she knew that, to save, them she would have to let them go. the image of four year old portia running to abdul haji was one no one would soon
i think there was a bit of commotion, and the kenyan woman said the cops are here. but it wasn t the police. it was a canyon man named abdul haji, the businessmen and father of four had received a text message from his brother earlier that morning. the message was very brief. that red, at west gate, terrorist, pray for me. abdul haji boulder to the mall and was stunned by what he saw when he got there. carnage, everywhere. he was terrified for his brother, who works for the canyon intelligence service and had received death threats from al-shabaab, the same terror group that is now attacking the mall. at this point in time, the magnitude of the whole situation dawned on me. security forces were just arriving, and abdul who is licensed to carry a gun, decided in an instant to join them. they entered the mall from the parking garage on the top floor. abdul s brother was still in the mall and actually not far from catherine walton and her girls on the main floor. he was hiding