Marco Díaz-Muñoz's class was the first location targeted by the gunman, who also opened fire in the MSU student union before he killed himself.
Marco Díaz-Muñoz's class was the first location targeted by the gunman, who also opened fire in the MSU student union before he killed himself.
"I don't know how long he stood there," the professor recalled. "He shot at least 15 shots, one after the other,one after the other. Bang, bang, bang." He told his students to kick out the windows of the ground-floor room so they could escape. The bottom panes would not break, but those above did, and some students were able to scramble out, he said.
Díaz-Muñoz says he cannot handle seeing blood, always turning away if any is drawn from him for a test. In other circumstances he imagined he would simply have fainted from the sight, but this time other reactions kicked in. "There is a part of me that feels like I want to go under the blankets and take more pills and not wake up for a while," he said. "I want to not remember these scenes and not have to go teach that class.
"I think if those senators or lawmakers saw what I saw, not just hear statistics, they would be shamed into action."
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