Chris Reber |
But small-town journalist Chris Reber found himself on the other side of the news Monday when he went to a meeting to write a story, and a gunman entered the building and killed three people. Reber relayed his frightening experience to his editors at the Pocono Record in the 5,500-population town of Stroudsburg in eastern Pennsylvania, and his first-hand account was published in the paper, as written by editor Chris Mele. Reber's story wasn't sensationalized, but told from the honest point-of-view of someone who survived a nightmare.
In describing his experience, Reber said: "The thing that got my attention: plaster flying out, blowing out through
the walls. Witnesses would later tell me they saw pictures exploding
away from the walls. I heard more than 10 shots. It was automatic, like a string of firecrackers. That's what everyone said. I crawled out to a hallway and then got outside. There is nothing in
reality you can compare it to. It just was not in reality. All I could
think was: It wasn't happening to me...It wasn't real to me until I went back inside and saw people bleeding." (Read more)
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