A Black family of three were separated for about 20 minutes during the mass shooting in Buffalo, and they later described how harrowing it was not knowing if everyone was safe as gunshots rang out.
When Jerome Bridges heard gunshots ring out in a Buffalo, New York, supermarket Saturday, he ran to lead some of his coworkers and customers to safety in the store's break room and barricaded them inside with a heavy desk.
"That's all you heard, was firing, constant firing -- firing and firing and firing," said Bridges, who is a scan coordinator at Tops Friendly Markets."People were scattering around the place, they was screaming, crying, yelling, talking about, 'There's a shooter in the store.'"Bridges told CNN he tried to keep the crowd quiet because the shots were getting closer to food displays that were near them.
'I was scared for my mom': 8-year-old Buffalo shooting survivor shares her story 01:02Thomas and his daughter followed an employee to the milk cooler section of the store and hid there as they waited for the gunshots to stop, Thomas told CNN's Don Lemon Wednesday night. "And then as the gunman was still shooting, he attempted to actually shoot through the coolers, but the bullets never penetrated," Thomas said."We could see the milk he shot through ...
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