Dowdell described Monday how her Candy 16 party ended along with her kneeling beside her dying brother on the bloodied ground of the studio.
“I bought on my knees and he was laying face down,” she stated. “And that’s after I grabbed him. I turned him over, I used to be holding him.”
She begged her brother, 18-year-old Philstavious “Phil” Dowdell, to “stick with me.”
By the point paramedics arrived on the dance studio, he had no pulse. Dowdell stated she requested them to test on her brother.
“I used to be like, ‘Is he alive or is he useless?’ And the individuals didn’t need to inform me, so they simply gave me, like, a sure look. And I simply knew he was simply gone,” she stated.
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Counselors had been readily available Monday as college students returned to Tallapoosa County faculties, college district superintendent Raymond C. Porter stated.
“It’s going to be a troublesome time for commencement and for these children,” stated Heidi Smith, spokesperson for Dadeville’s Lake Martin Group Hospital, the place 15 gunshot victims had been hospitalized.
