Western Kentucky University Shootings

It's one of those things, you think, "that will never happen at my school." I was wrong.

I'm locked in a classroom inside Western's Mass Media and Technology Hall. Fortunately, I ran into my little brother's girlfriend and she's here with me so I know she's OK.

I always park at the Walgreen's adjacent to the South Campus (Western's Community College) parking lot, walk over to the parking lot, catch the bus and ride it to main campus. That bus will drop me off right in front of Mass Media Technology Hall.

Normally I'm not on campus on Wednesdays but I wanted to meet with my professor so he could show me how to put my DVC onto a DVD or CD and a couple of tricks when working with Final Cut Pro.

I parked at Walgreen's like always and walked over. Britney Spears was belting her, "Pieces of Me" into my ears as I was walking across the Walgreen's parking lot. There was a white vehicle coming toward me rather fast and I was annoyed at their need for speed in a freaking parking lot.

I kept walking and when I got into the South Campus Commuter Lot I saw two African American girls texting like mad on their phones as they were scrambling to their cars. That's when I suspected something was going on. I then remembered that when I was sitting in my car putting on my makeup I heard sirens.

I got on the bus. There were three other students on the bus as well. The driver locked the doors and told us that we weren't going to be going anywhere. I asked her why and she said there were four African American males inside the South Campus building with guns so no one was permitted to leave. I got off the bus and walked back to my car.

Like the genius I am I decided to drive to main campus, park off campus and walk to the Mass Media and Technology Hall. I called the Herald (our campus newspaper) and told the reporters what was going on. I got 3/4 the way to the building when I saw Elizabeth, my little brother's girlfriend, walking toward me. We were talking when, for the first time in my entire existence at Western, I heard the complete alarm system go off.

A blaring voice that could be heard all over campus saying there was immediate danger and to take shelter immediately. Elizabeth and I ran the rest of the way to Mass Media and when we got inside there were a ton of people already there. I led her to the elevator and we went up to the third floor because I wasn't quite in terror mode yet and I wanted to get my freaking video done.

When we got up to the third floor and down to my professor's office there were people hoarding into the classrooms saying we were on lock down. Elizabeth and I went into the broadcasting newsroom with two other girls and locked the door. Someone called and said there were shootings in the Pierce Ford Tower and hostages were taken in both locations. Wowsa.

So I walked down the hall to see where my professor was and he was hoarding students into ImageWest, the student-run Advertising and PR Firm. I got Elizabeth and we went into ImageWest and so I'm sitting here blogging about it, listening to the guys on the radio saying, "We're trying to gather information from Bowling Green Police..." blah.