"Triplets Bella, Hailey and Katie Clarkson were eating lunch in a classroom at their high school in Evergreen, Colorado, when gunfire blasted through the hallway. For a moment, all three froze. "We knew immediately what the sound was, but we almost didn't believe it," Hailey, 15, tells TODAY.com in a joint interview with her sisters. Then came the screaming, terrified classmates darting through the hallways, followed by a sudden, haunting silence."
"Nestled in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, Evergreen's violent crime rate is significantly lower than the national average, fostering a sense of safety and trust among neighbors. "We're a small community where everybody knows everybody," the triplets' mother, Annie Clarkson, says. But school shootings spare no corner of the country, and Evergreen - a town of just 9,000 - became the latest to confront that grim reality."
"On Sept. 10, a 16-year-old suspect fired about 20 round s, mostly inside the school, in an attack that lasted roughly nine minutes and left two fellow students injured. The teacher in the classroom where the triplets were having lunch acted quickly, locking the door, switching off the lights and guiding the students to huddle silently against a wall, hidden from view."
Triplets Bella, Hailey and Katie Clarkson were eating lunch in a classroom when gunfire blasted through the hallway at their high school in Evergreen, Colorado. The community of about 9,000 has a significantly lower violent crime rate than the national average. A 16-year-old suspect fired about 20 rounds, mostly inside the school, in an attack lasting roughly nine minutes that injured two students. The teacher locked the door, turned off the lights and guided students to huddle silently hidden from view. Hailey FaceTimed her mother and feared she was going to die while their mother remained on the phone for 44 minutes. The shooter had been radicalized by an extremist network.
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