One of the victims of a mass shooting inside a movie theatre near Denver, Colorado, was an aspiring sportscaster who last month narrowly missed a shooting at Toronto’s Eaton Centre shopping mall.
Jessica Ghawi, 25, is among at least 12 people who died when a gunman wearing a gas mark fired bullets into a crowded movie theatre during the midnight showing of the new Batman movie.
Ghawi, described by friends as a bubbly and ambitious redhead, recently moved to Denver from Texas, according to TV station Kens5.
The young woman wrote about her experience missing the shooting in Toronto by only a few minutes. A man sprayed bullets in a crowded food court, killing one man instantly and injuring another who would later die in hospital.
In a blog post, Ghawi explains how she “felt funny” while sitting in the food court at Eaton Centre and decided to step outside to get some fresh air. Minutes later, shots rang out and shoppers started “funneling out of every exit,” she wrote.
My friend Jessica Ghawi was killed in the #Aurora Shooting-she was an aspiring sportscaster-she will be missed yfrog.com/oc7ruuhj
— Natalie Tejeda (@natalietejeda) July 20, 2012
“I’m not an EMT or a police officer. I’m not trained to handle crime and murder,” Ghawi wrote in a blog post on June 5.
“Gun crimes are fairly common where I grew up in Texas, but I never imagined I’d experience a violent crime first hand. I’m on vacation and wanted to eat and go shopping. Everyone else at the mall probably wanted the same thing. I doubt anyone left for the mall imagined they witness [sic] a shooting.”
Reached in Helotes, Texas, on Friday morning, Ghawi’s father Nick said his son flew out to Denver as soon as the family heard about the shooting.
Initially, authorities had not confirmed his daughter had died, he said.
“That’s why our son flew right away, he’s an EMT and a firefighter and he should be able to get through and confirm,” Nick said.
[via: http://news.nationalpost.com]
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