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When he got me to the closet, the thought crossed my mind that if I went in there, I was never going to walk back

out of there.

Real people.

When he saw how severe I was, his jaw dropped, his eyes bugged out, I knew I was in bad

shape.

Who faced death?

He was talking to the dispatch, telling them that he was going to start shooting up

the mall, that he's taken hostages, and the dispatch said, where are you? He said, followed the

screams. And lived to tell how. I felt like I had to fight the entire time. I was going to fight

until I was out of there, he was gone, or I was dead. fight until I was out of there. He was gone or I was dead.

This is I survived.

It's October 2004.

Carrie and her husband live in Chico, California.

My husband and I lived in the house with our four children.

I would just get up and get the kids ready and fed and everybody out the door and then I would be home alone with my youngest son who was three years old at the time. We finished eating our breakfast and we cleared the dishes from the sink and I turned on the TV for him so he could watch cartoons and I told

him that I was going to go in and take a shower and that the door was going to be open

for him if he needed to come get me.

Carrie did not lock the front door while she showered.

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