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Hey there guys, this young lady just came off a vehicle,
I guess you were brought over after evacuating the church.
We were escorted during the evacuation
by SWAT team
by the police, the local Houston police
and
also by the FBI
describe what you saw and or heard.
Well,
we were leaving the service and Joel
was meeting and greeting everybody right outside
on the second floor where all this happened.
And I was one of the last people
to meet and greet with Joel,
the pastor here
and
I went into the ladies room and when I came out,
I headed towards the nearest exit
on the second floor.
And I heard this like the bam bam, like,
like uh mechanical sounds like it almost sounded like folding,
uh tables were being dismantled and dropped to the floor.
And then there was like, uh but they were erratic.
Ok? And then there was another set of like bam, bam, bam.
And then all of a sudden it sounded,
I I stopped
and
uh I looked at the entrance
and people were screaming and scattering
and I went, oh no, no, no, no, this is not equipment being dismantled,
there's something going on
and then I saw a gentleman,
uh I'd say
late
twenties,
early thirties,
but I couldn't get a look at his face, but he was like standing like this
and he had, it looked like a pistol because it had a,
had a long pipe on it. Ok.
And it was like,
and he was pointing
in the,
not the opposite direction
but like at
an angle to me, you think he was one of the shooters or he
did? Because there was a gun,
there was a gun in his hand
and he wasn't an officer. No, no, no, no, he was dressed in normal clothes.
I couldn't describe it because it
so fast.
I just saw him, you know, near the entrance and he was standing like this,
like almost,
you know, the feet apart and he was like,
like this, I mean, evidently that's where the shots were coming from.
I don't know how long you've attended Lakewood Church,
but to have something like this happen here,
two weeks, I just drove here from Los Angeles.
I've always wanted to come to this church.
But you know what,
uh
I've seen enough movies that I knew we weren't supposed to scatter.
We needed to go to the nearest kind of um
uh cover, you know, like, like they have big pillars in there.
So instead of going straight towards the shooter,
I turned around and started running with the rest of the people.
But then all of a sudden there were very few people and then I saw a room off to the side
called New Beginnings. Ok.
And it was an info room I've been to before and one
person was going through and one door was locked and I went,
oh my God, I've got to get in that room
and then the other person opened it and I followed them in.
We had about uh
10 of us, 10 adults in a closet.
Um
And uh
there was one child in there
and uh no vent,
but we were all praying.
And um
we were thankful that
it
could have been worse.
We could have been a casualty.
We could have been shot.
Have you heard anything about anybody who may have
been shot? We just heard that there were two shooters.
One was a woman and one was a man.
I didn't see the woman and I didn't get a good look at the guy. Ok?
I just know that he was holding a gun in his hand and
it was extended and he was pointing it towards the crowd.
Are you willing to share any of your prayer?
What did you pray?
We pray, you know
God, our father who art in heaven, how it would be thy names. But we also
I'm a prayer warrior. So for me to pray is our greatest weapon
that we can use during any type of circumstance or situation. Or crisis.
And people, there were women in there crying
and wanted all of us to just feel a sense of peace and protection.
Thank God. There were two huge big wooden slats. We put those across the door.
Nobody was freaking out to the point where you know, they were being physical
and there, yes, emotions ran high.
But the prayers all of a sudden a piece seemed to come over the room, there was no vent.
We're all in there like sardines and all I can tell you is is that honestly
there was a sense of peace and people were starting to smile.
I have a feeling this won't dissuade you from coming back.
Absolutely not.
This is a sign of the end times
and this is happening all over the people that
were standing next to me were from Miami.
They just flew in,
they had delays on their flights and they wanted to get here on time
and they were able to make the 11 o'clock,
uh,
um service
and this was their first,
um, interaction,
but they felt the same way. They said in South Miami it's gotten really bad.
People just walking up and shooting people that
are sitting at the restaurants in broad daylight.
I moved here from Beverly Hills and, um,
uh I was there when Rodeo Drive, they were break, you know,
people were just breaking in Willy nilly into all the, uh chic boutiques there
and Nordstrom's there and to Pango was broken into,
in broad daylight and the staff are just standing there
and the police didn't want to get shot. So they didn't want to intervene
and they were understaffed. So that was understandable.
But you know what I'm really impressed about is look at all the teams of people
that
here in Houston, we've got the constables.
We've got the local police, Houston police, we've got the SWAT teams, we've got
constables and we've got sheriffs.