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storeroom at the back of the mall. others were hiding there, too, including an american mother with her own kids. without catherine there to comfort them, the boys stayed with that mother. blez hoped they were far enough from the gun-toting terrorists, but they weren t. surveillance video shows the terrorists made it all the way in the back hunting for more victims. but this wise 14-year-old did something ingenious. i finally just pulled ian aside, sat him down behind a thing of flour. there s one by one by one meters of flour on all sides of him. so kind of like a barricade of flour bags. yeah. we pulled toilet paper on top of our heads so no one would see us. why did you need to be hidden? we didn t know if people were going to be walking back and looking for us, so we just pulled all stops. 10-year-old ian walton remembers how scared he was.
meetings leaving his wife alone in nairobi with their five kids. i got woken up at about 6:00 a.m. with a phone call from paul weaver, our dear family friend, so i knew it was not good. do you remember what he said? there is an attack going on at westgate and your wife and sons are in there and they re separated. that s a call you don t want to have to make. reporter: paul weaver, the walton family friend had been at home recovering from surgery when he got an urgent text from catherine. what time did the first message come in? the first one came in at 12:52. and what did she say? she said, pray, shooting in westgate. hiding. that s a message. it just blew me away. so i actually wrote her back, really? and she said, yes, i don t know where the boys are. and she said, find blez. reporter: he texted the walton s oldest son, blez, but he didn t answer. i started looking on the internet. somebody put out a statement on facebook saying don t call anybody because when
round after fatal round. catherine walton was hunkered down near where the shoot had gone started crouched in a small kiosk with a stranger and her three young daughters. she was desperately worried about her sons who were somewhere out there, but she had to focus on keeping her daughters quiet so they wouldn t attract attention. are you hiding from these gunmen? yeah. we were laying down on the ground trying to hide from them so they couldn t see us. porsche kept her fingers in her ears. gigi laid there and said, mom, i want my blanket and my mouse and my flashlight. she sleeps with those three things every night. she said she wanted her brothers. and i told her that we d see them later. reporter: catherine could only hope that was true. half a world away, a phone rang in a hotel in north carolina. catherine s husband, phillip, a tech entrepreneur had gone back to the u.s. for business
reporter: catherine spotted abdul too but sensed he wasn t a threat. how did you know they weren t terrorists? they weren t carrying the large guns we had seen that the terrorists had. reporter: with just a few words between them, catherine walton and abdul quickly coordinated an exit strategy. we opened fire towards the door to scare the terrorists away. then it was time. then we hold fire and then i tell the lady, now! and suddenly this young girl appears out of nowhere and i just call to her to run towards me and she starts running, and immediately, i m thinking, what a brave girl. when porsche got up and ran, did you have a moment where you thought, oh, my god? i think i realized that it was precarious, but i was also trusting that if they were telling us to run, that it was safe.