me. and just started and i ducked i was behind the chips and so i ducked and he just boom, boom, boom, started firing off rounds at me. and i was like, oh, my god, this guy is shooting at me. when i got hit, it was like it was like somebody put a hand grenade in your back and pulled the pin. that s what it felt like. and then so i was like, oh, my god, i got to get up. i got to get up. get up, get up. so he walked to the bank, which was right by the rest rooms. and just randomly started i mean, people were praying in spanish. porfavor, no, no. and he was just they were on the ground and he still just shot them in the head. i mean, they were praying in spanish. i mean, i m from el paso, and i know spanish, and they were praying, please, please, don t
what this country is at her best. there are two things that jumped out to me in that really moving interview, at times searing interview. christopher grant is describing what s going on in the walmart, por favor, no, don t shoot me. that just cuts you, that hurts, and the other thing he said, is when he was down, after being shot, feeling like a hand grenade went off in his back, he says, i know i got to get up, i got to get up, that is el paso, that to me is donna who helped him up, the officer who said he went to go visit chris in the i icu. reporter: it s also a reminder, this man wasn t mentally ill. he wasn t deranged. he wasn t not in his right mind. he was looking, listening, and acting. this was a hateful, white nationalist who by any definition is a terrorist. that s right. donna said it best also a
pulled the pin. that s basically what it felt like. and so i was like, oh, my god, got to get up, get up, get up, and then so he walked to the bank, which was right by the restrooms and just randomly started, i mean, people were praying in spanish, no por favor, they were on the ground, and they still shot him in the head. he had no remorse for their lives at all. i ran through the walmart, i went through the paint department, and i finally found the auto department. i ran through the auto department door, and there was don, my guardian angel, and she s a federal agent. cvp. and i said there s a shooter inside, code brown. my dad was in the military, and so that means there s a shooter inside, so she s like, get down, get down, and she went to work,
action boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, started firing off rounds at me. oh, my god, this guy is shooting at me. people were praying in spanish. por favor, no. no. por favor, no. they were on the ground and he still just shot them in the head. they re praying in spanish. i mean i m from el paso and i know spanish and they are praying. please, please, don t shoot me. and he had no remorse for their lives at all. cnn national correspondent sara sidner is here with me now. you also spoke with another family who talked about the heroic efforts of one of their own. but they re breathing at the same time. they are breathing. they lost a couple, a mother and father of three children. they talked to me about that couple and talked to me about their daughter and son-in-law. and the mother that is grieving now who has lost her daughter, who has lost her son-in-law said something remarkable to us.
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