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Memories of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting play on repeat in Isabella Benjumea’s mind.
She can’t forget what she saw. More than anything, she remembers what she heard.
“The noises I heard, the sounds. The people screaming. The gunshots, obviously. The fire alarm,” recalled Benjumea.
She took a selfie in the car before heading into school on Valentine’s Day 2018 – a final moment of her childhood innocence frozen in time.
“I was in my English class,” said Benjumea. “We were writing Valentine’s Day cards because we were reading Romeo and Juliet.”
She said she first realized something was wrong when she heard a loud noise in the hallway.
“When we left, officers were telling us not to look down, not to look around us. But it was kind of impossible. And so we saw, like – I saw, like, blood, all these bodies,” she said. “They just told us to run. Literally, they were like, just run. Just leave. And as a 14-year-old, I just started running…I felt like I was in a horror movie.”
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