Massacre at children's bowling league [View all]

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One bowler, who only identified himself by his first name Brandon, said he heard 10 shots ring out before he ran down the alley barefoot and climbed inside the bowling machinery to hide from the gunman.

'I thought it was a balloon, I had my back turned to the door. And as soon as I turned and saw it was not a balloon, he was holding a weapon, I just booked it down the lane and I slid basically in where the pins are and climbed on the machine.

Brandon, who stayed on top of the machines for about ten minutes until the cops arrived, said that the gunman was around 15ft behind him. 'He was close, very close,' he added.

'I just went there to bowl by myself and I wasn't even in there 10 minutes, I just walked in the place. I was putting on my bowling shoes when it started. I've been barefoot for five hours.'

Riley Dumont said her 11-year-old daughter was playing in the children's bowling league when she heard several gunshots. She told ABC News her father, a retired police officer, rushed the family into a corner.

'I was laying on top of my daughter,' Dumont said, adding that her own mother lay on both of them to protect them. At least seven people were killed in the first shooting.

Jason J. Levesque told CNN that the youngest victims of the shootings were teenagers, adding that trauma specialists and grief counselors were at the scene.

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