It’s ‘as bad as you can imagine’Officer Chris Crawford, who patrols near the Coral Square Mall, heard reports of the school shooting on Feb. 14. He drove so fast to get to the school, at about 100 mph, that he scared himself, he said. He was one of the first on the scene and helped rescue a 14-year-old boy.

He grabbed his rifle, and started running.

He was maybe the 12th or 13th officer to arrive, and a sergeant was bringing out an injured boy. The sergeant said the teen had been shot “a bunch of times” and told Crawford to take care of him.But the teen couldn’t make it to the ambulance, he couldn’t breathe, he said.

A second officer put pressure on the child’s back with his knee.

The boy had also been wounded in his shoulder, thigh and arm.

Another girl Crawford treated had gunshot or shrapnel injuries to her wrist and toe, he said.

After the paramedics took over, Crawford, who served as a Marine, ran to the 1200 building, where much of the shooting took place.

He found a classroom and storage area where 70 students and three teachers were hiding.

He said he had to convince them to remove the barricades to the door — he slipped his ID under the door as proof and was then interrogated about his ID number.

“I forgot my phone or I would have FaceTimed with them,” he said. “I had to negotiate with [them] to come out. I don’t blame them.”

What he saw the day of the shooting was “awful,” he said.

It’s “as bad as you can imagine — times 10,” he said. “I have a 2-year-old. I don’t want to send him to school.”

‘By the grace of God’

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