Virginia TV Shooting Survivor, Vicki Gardner, the woman who survived if two Virginia TV journalists were advance and asleep by a annoyed ex-colleague endure month, said she played asleep in an advance to escape the killer's bullets.
In her aboriginal account aback the August 26 attack, she told Fox News ballast Greta Van Susteren that the gunman, Vester Flanagan, alternate to shoot her in the aback afterwards killing WDBJ7 anchorman Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward. Gardner, a alcove of business official, was getting interviewed if the cutting started.
Gardner, 61, told Van Susteren, that she saw Flanagan from the bend of her eye as he approached.
"I saw movement. And again gunfire. Lots and lots of gunfire," she said. "From that point, it was actual chaotic."
Her actual reaction, she said, was to play dead.
"I just fell to the arena as admitting I had been hit and went into fetal position," she said. "He did appear aback up and advance me in the back."
"Had I connected to stand, I would not be actuality talking to you," she said.
As he confused about, Flanagan was "very silent," Gardner recounted.
"I was cat-and-mouse for him to shoot me in the head. If he advance me in the back, I said, 'I'm traveling to be paralyzed,' and again I waited," she said. "It goes absolute quick. Your apple goes in foreground of you, and it did, absolute fast, and I said, 'I'm ready.'"
Following a badge chase, Flanagan, 41, asleep himself 5 hours afterwards the advance at Smith Mountain Lake, southeast of Roanoke.
Gardner said she anticipation she would be paralyzed. However, the ammo did not go through her spine. Instead, doctors removed a branch from Gardner and allotment of her colon. She was appear from the hospital in September.
"I'm blessed to be here," she said, while aswell aching Parker and Ward.
"Why save me and yield them?" she said. "But acutely there's a purpose — and by golly I will accomplish it."
In her aboriginal account aback the August 26 attack, she told Fox News ballast Greta Van Susteren that the gunman, Vester Flanagan, alternate to shoot her in the aback afterwards killing WDBJ7 anchorman Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward. Gardner, a alcove of business official, was getting interviewed if the cutting started.
Gardner, 61, told Van Susteren, that she saw Flanagan from the bend of her eye as he approached.
"I saw movement. And again gunfire. Lots and lots of gunfire," she said. "From that point, it was actual chaotic."
Her actual reaction, she said, was to play dead.
"I just fell to the arena as admitting I had been hit and went into fetal position," she said. "He did appear aback up and advance me in the back."
"Had I connected to stand, I would not be actuality talking to you," she said.
As he confused about, Flanagan was "very silent," Gardner recounted.
"I was cat-and-mouse for him to shoot me in the head. If he advance me in the back, I said, 'I'm traveling to be paralyzed,' and again I waited," she said. "It goes absolute quick. Your apple goes in foreground of you, and it did, absolute fast, and I said, 'I'm ready.'"
Following a badge chase, Flanagan, 41, asleep himself 5 hours afterwards the advance at Smith Mountain Lake, southeast of Roanoke.
Gardner said she anticipation she would be paralyzed. However, the ammo did not go through her spine. Instead, doctors removed a branch from Gardner and allotment of her colon. She was appear from the hospital in September.
"I'm blessed to be here," she said, while aswell aching Parker and Ward.
"Why save me and yield them?" she said. "But acutely there's a purpose — and by golly I will accomplish it."
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