.
. THERE
. THERE IS NO PLACE IN AMERICA THAT IS SAFE FROM THE EFFECTS
OF GUN VIOLENCE AND CERTAINLY
NO PLACE IN AMERICA.
WORDS ACCEPTABLE FOR PEOPLE TO
BE KILLED WHILE GOING ABOUT
DAILY LIFE.
BUT THIS THE GROCERY STORE IS
JUST THE MOST ORDINARY
OF PLACES.
STEVE STAEGER HAS BEEN OUT HERE
TODAY TALKING WITH SOME OF THE
FOLKS WHO WERE AT THE KING
SOOPERS EARLIER TODAY WHEN 10
PEOPLE WERE SHOT AND KILLED
JUST GOING ABOUT THEIR DAILY
BUSINESS OR IN SOME CASES
COMING HERE FOR THE VACCINE
THAT THEY HAD LONG AWAITED FOR
MONTHS.
WHEN WE FIRST GOT HERE,
THE PEOPLE WE SAW HERE WERE
WERE JUST SOME WEERE NEARBY AND
HEARD LOUD NOISES AND WONDERED
WHAT WAS GOING ON.
A LOT OF THE PEOPLE HERE IN
THE PARKING LOT WATCHING THIS
UNFOLD WERE PEOPLE WHO WERE
WORKING AT THE GROCERY STORE,
PEOPLE WHO MAY HAVE BEEN INSIDE
AND HAD TO RUN OUT.
WE DID MEET ONE MAN WHO RAN
HERE AFTER A FRANTIC MESSAGE
FROM HIS SON IN LAW.
THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A HAPPY
DAY.
STEVEN MCHUGH, SON IN LAW WAS
GETTING THE COVID VACCINE HIS
12 AND 13 YEAR OLD
GRANDDAUGHTERS HERE AT THE KING
SUPRISE PHARMACY WITH THEIR DAD
AND THERE WAS SHOOTING AND HE
SAW IT AND GOT THE GIRLS DOWN.
THEY RAN AND HID UPSTAIRS AND A
CLOSET FOR AN HOUR IN THE COATS
AND THEY WERE COMMUNICATING
WITH MY DAUGHTER THROUGH HIS
PHONE, TEXTING, HIDING OUT
OF YOU UNTIL HEROES CAME TO
HELP AND THE COPS CAME IN
THROUGH THE ROOF.
LAW ENFORCEMENT GOT THE FAMILY
OUT.
I'M SHAKING.
I'M I'M SO GLAD THEY'RE SAFE.
SCARRED BY WHAT THEY WITNESSED
BUT SAFE.
THAT LEAVES THEIR GRANDFATHER
WITH MIXED EMOTIONS.
WHAT'S MORE PRECIOUS, YOU KNOW
AND THEN I GET REALLY ANGRY.
EVERY CITY IS SUSCEPTIBLE BUT
THERE'S THERE'S A WAY IN WHICH
I WOULD THINK THAT WELL, THIS
WASN'T GOING TO HAPPEN IN
BOULDER.
ANGER AND NOW WE KNOW BETTER
AND WHAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A
HAPPY DAY.
THIS HAS GOT TO STOP EVERY WEEK
EVERY WEEK IN THE UNITED STATES
A SHOOTING NOW IT'S OUR TURN
AND THAT SHOULD NEVER BE
REPEATED ANYWHERE.
ANOTHER COMMUNITY DOWN THE ROAD
FROM THE LAST COMMUNITY NOW
GRAPPLING WITH THE CONFUSION
AND THE ANGER AND
THE HEARTBREAK THAT COMES FROM
NEIGHBORS BEING SHOT AND
KILLED.
SO SEE WE TALK ABOUT THE FACT
THAT THESE FOLKS IN A GROCERY
STORE OF ALL THE PLACES YOU
MIGHT HAVE BEEN IN THE LAST
YEAR, PEOPLE HAVE GONE TO
THE GROCERY STORE BUT YET
THE THREAT WAS AT THE FRONT
DOOR.
WE KNOW THE SHOOTER IS IN
THE PARKING LOT, CAME IN
THE FRONT DOOR IN A LOT
OF CASES PROBABLY THE ONLY
ENTRANCE OR EXIT.
A LOT OF PEOPLE TO NOT EVEN IF
THEY'RE HERE A LOT.
I MEAN I THINK ABOUT IT THIS
WAY I'M NOT SURE I WOULD KNOW
WHERE TO HIDE IN A GROCERY
STORE.
BUT YOU HEAR HIM TALK ABOUT
THEY WENT UPSTAIRS, THEY FOUND
A COAT CLOSET UPSTAIRS.
THEY WERE HIDING THERE.
I TRIED TO THINK ABOUT JUST
WALKING AROUND MY OWN PERSONAL
GROCERY STORE OTHER THAN
THE FRONT DOORS, I'M NOT SURE
I KNOW WHERE THE EXIT WAS SO
I THINK THERE'S A CHANCE WE'RE
GOING TO HEAR SOME STORIES FROM
INSIDE THIS BUILDING WHERE A
LOT OF EMPLOYEES SUPER STEPPED
IN AND GOT PEOPLE TO SAFETY OR
GOT PEOPLE OUT OF THIS BUILDING
AND WE KNEW IT TOOK QUITE A BIT
OF TIME TO GET SOME OF THE
WITNESSES TO THE SHOOTING
SAFELY OUT OF THE BUILDING
WHEREAS OTHERS REALIZED
SOMETHING WAS GOING WAS GOING
ON AND WE'RE CLOSE ENOUGH TO
THE DOOR TO REALLY GET OUT
FAST.
LIKE WHAT STORE EMPLOYEE THAT
YOU TALKED I TALKED TO ONE
EMPLOYEE WHO WAS LITERALLY
WALKING OUT AT THE TIME THAT
THIS SHOOTING STARTED.
HE WAS WALKING OUT TO GO ON HIS
BREAK AND HE SAYS HE CAUGHT
SOMETHING OUT OF THE CORNER
OF HIS EYE .
HE SAW SOMEONE WALKING
THE DOOR.
HE HEARD A BOOM AND HE SAW
FLASH AND HE JUST STARTED
RUNNING IN THE OTHER DIRECTION.
IT WAS ALMOST INHERENT THAT IT
WAS TIME TO GO GET OUT OF THERE
SO HE KNEW SOMETHING WAS GOING
ON.
THERE WAS ANOTHER GENTLEMAN
I TALKED TO WHO WORKED IN
THE