naps and everybody would be happy. the waltons chose to move to kenya two years earlier from texas. for katherine and phillip, it was like going home. both children of missionaries and grew up in countries in west africa. met in boarding school in africa and married in the states and started raising their family. at the time of the attack, their son was 14 years old and one ten. porsha four, gigi two, and pet the baby 13 months old.
reflection. . um great for for our children being alive. i m grateful to be reunited with my husband. this incident has brought us more closer. now we don t want to leave each other s sides. 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. the waltons, too, said they were the grateful for friends, new and old, especially young porsha who beamed when we showed you a picture of her rescuer on a smartphone. is that mr. haji? yes. what did he do? he saved us. hello. nice to see you again. three days after the worst day of their lives, the waltons were reunited with their hero.
husband phillip. she knew he was too far away to do anything. knew she would only panic him. back in north carolina all phillip could do was weight. it was 6:00 a.m. and news of the attack hadn t hit the u.s. yet. i m trying to imagine the feeling of getting that phone call and being so far away. i think helplessness is a pretty accurate world. you know there s nothing you can do. i was so worried the girls would be screaming like uncontrollably panicking and drawing attention. exactly what katherine was trying to prevent the girls from doing. i just kept telling them to stay little. stay very quiet. and the kenyan lady that was with porsha just kept patting her and soothing her and gigi just was curled up in a little ball. her breathing was so quiet and so shallow. i just kept rubbing her back and touching her because i was like
just ran. from out of the blue, a hero. i called her to run towards me and she starts running. could he rescue the very smallest of victims. when porsha got up and ran, did you have a moment where you shau thought, oh, my god. hello, welcome to dateline. it seems like mass shootings have become all too frenquent i theist. overseas, carried out an even more deadly attack when gunman turned it into a scene of bloodshed. to also emerge that day were remarkable stories of courage and survival. here s kate snow.
the image of 4-year-old porsha was one no one would soon forget. catherine wasn t far behind. and they weren t alone. these images show the terror on the faces of others being rescues by police in those same moments. in north carolina, phillip got a call from his business partner. i got confirmation from eric that he was standing there with them and they were all safe. your whole family. yeah. then i cried. then it you know, then you can let go. then you can just kind of you can collapse. later, a picture followed. his wife and children trapped in that mall for hours in terror were now in the safety of a friend s house together. simply the most precious thing i could imagine seeing