it was something else. he knew he had to protect himself. and more than that, he knew he was responsible for his younger brother. you grabbed your brother? yeah. as fast as you could? yeah. and just ran. were you pushing him? yes. you didn t want him to see it? no. that s hard for it would be hard for me a grown-up. at 14, that s pretty darn hard. it really is. blaise clutching his brother ian, raced away from the gunfire with just one thought. i just thought ian first, save him. me second. you headed towards the back of the store? other people at that time were rushing back so we followed the crowd. they made it to a store room at the back of the store. others were hiding their too, including an american mother with her own kids. without katherine to comfort them, the boys stayed with that mother. blaise hoped they were far
that crowd. so, thanks to her we were still alive. the walton boys were holed up in the back room when eventually police were able to break down a door and get people out. the security camera shows the chaos and the crowd after being released. look closely, there s blaise in his redshirt and ian with his backpack, free after three and a half hours of being trapped. relief washed over phillip walton when he saw his boys in the image his friend sent him. at least his sons were okay. i remember thinking at that time, at least i won t be alone. i remember thinking, however this a day is at least the boys and i will have each other if it turns out worse than we would hope or imagine. his wife, katherine, was still trapped under that tiny
not. no way of knowing that soon, some of his prayers would be answered. coming up, philip and katherine s son is trapped in the most violent part of the mall, and a 14 year old realizes it s up to him to protect his younger brother. i just thought even first, save him, me second. when dateline continues.
cramped in her hiding spot, she was desperate to reach her boys after trying and trying, she finally got through again. i was able to send a text. it said, are you okay? and he told me they were okay. that they were safe. you thought your boys had gotten out? i did. when he told me they were safe, i thought they had gotten out. but they hadn t. the walton boys were hiding in the back of the nakima store. the cell phone video captured the battlefield store became. the aisles wear a bullet riddled maze, shoppers were stunned. some drawing fire, and now they were gunman headed toward katherine s sons. faith wambua was the other mother trapped in this nightmare. she had her two young children with her and was worried about controlling her toddler son. they heard gunfire all around them. i feel bad right now because i was lying on him, trying to
welcome back to dateline. the walton boys had made it out of the west gate mall which was still a scene of terror. but their mother, katherine, and her three girls, were still trapped inside, and then, a man holding a gun approached them. the next moments would be critical. here is kate snow with the conclusion of our story. for more than four hours, katherine walton, her girls, and the kenyan woman helping them, huddled in a hiding space barely bigger than a bathtub closed off from the outside world. katherine didn t know she was part of a terrorist attack. all she knew was that gunman were convincing the mall, shooting it everyone. and now, a man with a gun was creeping toward her. you run to that table for hours. at some point, you hear something, you see something?