he fear among the students and their parents following the shootout was real and palpable.
Dipti Gupta, a teacher at Dawson, into whose class the panicked students had rushed for shelter, recalled one student who thought she had grazed her leg while fleeing. It turned out be a bullet wound. Gupta and some of her students tried to soothe her while urging her to stay quiet lest the gunman heard the screams and came after her.
In the photograph: Tearful students make phone calls from a secure area to their family following a shooting rampage at Dawson College on Wednesday
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