Alexis Dowdell mentioned she tapped her brother’s face and begged him to “stick with me.”
The Saturday evening started with “all people dancing, vibing to the music,” Alexis Dowdell mentioned. However the occasion had stopped briefly when individuals heard somebody had a gun, Keenan Cooper, the DJ on the celebration, advised WBMA-TV.
Whereas individuals with weapons had been requested to depart, Cooper mentioned nobody did. Quickly after, the capturing began.
When the gunfire had ceased for a second, Alexis Dowdell mentioned she ran in direction of the entrance door earlier than somebody pushed her. It was her brother, attempting to guard her.
“I suppose he tried to push me out the door as quick as he might, however I ended up slipping on blood, as a result of it was an entire bunch of blood on the ground,” she mentioned.
As college students returned to Tallapoosa County colleges Monday, counselors had been readily available to assist anybody dealing with the capturing’s aftermath, faculty district superintendent Raymond C. Porter mentioned.
Heidi Smith, spokesperson for Dadeville’s Lake Martin Group Hospital – the place 15 gunshot victims had been taken – mentioned her hospital and others would offer at the very least a few of these counselors.
