Travis Carver and Cherie Reed sat down with The Cleveland Plain Dealer to recount T.J. Lane and the deadly school shooting at Chardon High School.

Carver said it was 7:35 in the morning when he went grab some breakfast in the school cafeteria. He then decided to walk around and talk to friends. It was then he heard the first shot ring out in the cafeteria

“I saw him. I saw him take two shots,” Carver said.

Cafeteria worker Cherie Reed didn’t think it was a gunshot at first.

“I thought someone was banging the table with a wood,” she said. “I pushed my register up and that’s when we looked up and saw the kid. He was about 30 feet away and someone screamed ‘Oh my God, he’s got a gun!’

Reed then recounts she screamed for all the kids to get into the room she was in.

“The second to the last was Joy [Rickers] and I saw her fall,” she said.

She picked herself up and we got her in the room, she said.

Carver described Lane’s shooting as simultaneous.

Everyone, he said, was looking over and saw t.j. stand up and point the gun.

“Then two more shots and then another shot. They were simultaneous like one after each other,” he said. “After the third or fourth is when I turned and ran. “

Reed remained calm during the ordeal, so she may tend to Rickers’ wound.

“I had Joy laying on her side and went and got towels and got pressure put on there on her wound,” she said.

Reed acknowledge the shooting took everyone by surprise, but said there “was no hysterics.”

“They were just crying and texting on their phones,” she said.

Reed and Carver said they were in the room an hour before a Sheriff appeared with a shotgun.
Carver said he was commended by his fellow classmates for being calm during the ordeal. This, he said, kept them calm also.

“The actual situation itself being clear-headed, not freaking out, not letting the situation get the best of you,” he said. “It was bad but you had to think about what needed to be done just so you can help yourself and help other people. People were telling me since I was calm it was helping them to be calm and be less scared.”

I felt safe when we got out of that room, reed added.

Carver said any loud bang or loud crack puts a constant reminder in him.

“Now ever since you hear a loud bang or a loud crack…just the other day when Nick Walczak came back they had balloons and everything and a balloon touched the ceiling a popped and there was just an utter silence in the whole school,” he said. “The cafeteria quiet down. Everything just went silent. Once everybody realized it was a balloon, everybody went back to talking. It puts a constant reminder in your head, every time you hear something. It brings you back to that time and it kinds of scares you. “

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