emergency. we were told to evacuate the building. though we were going into our standard protocol for that. getting our identity cards, our notebooks to muster everyone, shutting the door, evacuating the building as quickly as we could. as we started to leave our office, a number of people came running from the outside into our space just saying, got out of the building now! get out of the building now. ! i had not been aware there was a shooting. although, some people had heard that. they were in such a hurry, i assumed there was a fire emergency in the building. so we got the front doors shut. we were heading into the back hallway which would take us into a short passageway to the stairwell to get out. it was at that point in time that four of us were stantding there and we saw what was turned out to be the gunman standing down about halfway down our