C and I were at the gym on Friday when a man came in and started shooting with a riffle. Apparently he was targeting the gym manager for some reason, killing him right in front of me. Yes, literally. It was horrible. C was in a whole other part of the gym and escaped out the back safely while I was a floor above it with a direct line of sight to the inner lobby where the gunman was. The link below will take you to the Channel 13 News coverage of it where you will see me interviewed. Yeah, I was still in shock at that time.
I am not okay. I’m not broken either, but the events keep playing out over and over in my head. I think about the man killed, Edgar, who by many accounts was a wonderful person. I want badly to know why. I want to understand, because it doesn’t make sense to me.
On top of all that, no one seems to be thinking much about it except those directly impacted by it. It’s unsettling that to many people it seems as if this is just another news story flashed across the media with no context of how horrifying the event is/was. I can understand that, because it was a flash on the news. It’s marched across the news, including a scene where the gunman came out of the gym and was shot down by police.
I’m gunna be okay eventually. But… eventually.