foreign at this time we are going to ask that students and staff proceed to conduct an internal lockdown when I was a junior in high school I had to take an emergency trip to the bathroom my stomach was really upset I definitely had some sort of stomach bug going on as I was dashing through the hallway trying to make it to the bathroom in time I started to hear a whistling sound that was coming from the other side of the hallway thank you as I got closer to the bathroom I realized that whoever was whistling
was in the bathroom I didn't think much of it other than that it was a slight inconvenience for me as I was wanting the bathroom all to myself considering I was literally going to blow the toilet up I ran to this stall and did my business uncomfortably the entire time that man that I barely even saw might I add stayed in the bathroom I must have been in there for like 10 minutes at this point and there is no telling how long he would have been in there beforehand I started to think that it was
probably a School Janitor but I really wanted him to leave for obvious reasons I wanted some privacy the whole time he was whistling and humming while I was mitz going number two gross I know but this is what happened after I finished up in the stall I walked out to wash my hands real quickly all while trying not to make eye contact with the man that was in the bathroom with me as I was kind of embarrassed I also had to hurry back to class because if I were to be gone for too long it's
very well possible I could have gotten to some trouble then what happened next threw me off guard completely the janitor then started walking over towards my direction and he stopped after being no more than a foot away from me he was so close that I could feel him breathing on me I felt a tingle on the back of my neck and I was so uncomfortable that I had no other option other than to look at him what the heck man I said he had this Stone Cold look on his face and then shortly after he
gave me this extremely disturbing looking smile that I will never forget I'm on my way back to class and I was puzzled all I could think was that that guy was crazy I texted my friend about it when I got back to class and he told me how he had a similar situation with that guy the same exact janitor he told me he knew he was a creep too so he planned on talking to the principal about him that day but we never ended up following through with that after school me and that same friend
I was just talking about Elias and another one of our close friends Peyton all decided to walk after school that was something that we did a lot usually we would go to nearby restaurants or fast food chains or even the park we did all kinds of stuff after school and usually it was the most fun we would ever have this day we decided we were going to go to this Diner that we all loved we had to walk through this trail that started on school grounds and opened back up a nearby neighborhood in order to
get to this restaurant well we didn't have to take that way but it was definitely quicker and a way more fun route so 90 of the days we walked after school we would take the trails Elias and I started talking about that creepy janitor and Peyton started to chime in as well he knew the janitor that we were talking about but he never had an experience with them if you're telling Peyton just how creepy that guy was and he started to understand I kid you not though it was like us talking about him the janitor
spawned him there or something not literally but it was like crazily ironic and weird up in the distance we noticed that there was a man ahead no way Peyton said dude isn't that him the janitor from school we all stood in fear and confusingly looked at him until we could all make out that it was him for 100 certainty hey let's turn around Peyton said I didn't even say anything to that I just continued moving forward as did Elias as we were walking past him he then stopped and stared at us but we kept walking
the janitor then yelled for us and asked if you would like to hang out okay so Not only was this man a janitor at her school and supposed to be an authority figure but he was really a creep he also had to have been at least 55 years old why the heck would he want to hang out with a bunch of kids our age for we just ignored him and we picked up our Pace a little bit but he then started jogging towards us and it was at this point that we started to full-on run
he then began screaming at us and when I looked back I saw that he had a knife in one of his hands we all screamed for help and ran for at least five minutes and shortly after that we seem to have lost him we later found out about who he really was the next day of school me Elias and Peyton and our parents all went up to the school and reported the situation to the police and to the principal it turned out that this school had no idea who this man was and that he wasn't
a School Janitor he was a man pretending to be a janitor I don't know how he got away with this like getting inside the school and all without being detected for so long it's quite ridiculous and scary if you ask me they really need to double down on security because school is supposed to be a safe place for kids to learn it turned out that the man was a convicted sex offender as well and that he's been abusing minors for years now he also had a court orders where he had to stay a certain distance
away from kids but that didn't stop him I personally think he was going to take it a step further this time and try to kill one of us some people are so messed up in the head I can't even begin to comprehend it was just another normal day of school I think I was in 10th Grade I want to say it was right after third hour anyways it was launch time so my friends and I were goofing off like we always would we would all eat for maybe five minutes and spend the rest of the
20 minutes playing games and messing around and such well about halfway through launch the PA went off and so that we were having an emergency lockdown which was definitely kind of scary this is an emergency alert please follow lockdown procedures go into the nearest room or building lock the door and turn off all lights because usually if it were just a drill then the principal would say that or at least warn us before so we knew to expect a lockdown in the near future I vividly remember Mr Harrison sounding a bit panicked when he announced
the lockdown too my friends kind of thought that was part of his gig to make it seem real but I had a bad feeling about it now this is probably the dumbest thing I've ever done in my life and I still honestly have no clue why we did this but after they shut the school's power off my friends thought it would be funny to sneak out of the cafeteria through a side entrance that led upstairs to one of the main hallways of our school I decided to tag along with them just because I'm not really
sure I just did after walking around for a little bit we all split up and at this point it was only me and Andrew or three other friends ventured off by themselves somewhere it was so dark in the hallways that we could barely even see what was in front of us the only source of light we had was coming from the sun shining through the windows but even then it was a pretty cloudy day so the outside didn't have much light to offer us then out of nowhere we heard three gunshots right in a row
followed by screaming Andrew and I of course started freaking out so he ran outside and sprinted as fast as we could I'm happy we were close to the main entrance of the school because I'd much rather have been outside than hiding in a bathroom or something but now we were in the front of the school and we knew we were sitting ducks for any of the teachers or police to find us we didn't want to get in trouble for sneaking off when we shouldn't have been so we ran behind the school and headed straight for
the woods we had to run across the soccer field to get there but we made it across without being seen then we heard police sirens getting closer I knew they were there for whoever the hell just fired the gun but we were still paranoid that the school or police were looking for us for running off as well I've had friends who have gotten to some trouble for truancy before and I was definitely on edge about everything that was happening in general as any normal person would be this was a pretty serious situation so we were
freaking out for a while and we were trying to calm each other down we also didn't want the police or anyone to think we had anything to do with that psycho with a gun while the police weren't searching for us and they literally had no idea we were missing in the first place nor did anyone in the school but we pushed our luck by continuing hiding because eventually the police found us as they were doing a required sweep around the premises the police ended up finding us and when they did they detanged us until they
caught the actual suspect they were looking for apparently the kid who let off the gunshots was someone who went to a whole different school and he was only a year younger than me nobody got hurt thankfully but the kid said he was coming to kill some girl specifically but he failed something weird I want to add real quick is how eerily similar me and this kid look we were both the same height same color hair and hairstyle and we were dressed very similar that day the police quickly figured out it had nothing to do with
it though after we explained everything I learned my lesson that day for sure this took place on my very last day of high school I was on my senior year so after I got through today it would be the very end of high school for me of course I was super excited and I felt a huge amount of relief but there was also a sadness in the air for me that day because all it really meant was that I was going to have to leave all my friends behind and have to make new ones in
college I tried to not look at it so negatively because ultimately it is what it is and it's just a part of life you know changes I don't remember exactly why or what happened but I was in a particularly bad mood this day because of things that were going on at home with my family I think it was fifth hour which was biology class I didn't mind the class really but the teacher was the one that made it horrible Mr Johnson was a jerk to me and many of the other kids in my class I
honestly don't know how he hadn't been fired sooner he was Notorious for getting into it with the kids and getting into screaming matches one time he even broke a kid's phone and another time he legit threatened me in front of the whole class I don't think he works there as a teacher anymore but I really didn't feel like going to his class that day so I skipped it I went over to the library and my plan was to lay low until sixth hour I hid in the back of the library in the computer section and
pretended like I was doing my schoolwork but really I was playing games on my phone the entire time not too long after this all of a sudden the school's intercom went off we were having a lockdown although I will admit it alarmed me I figured it was just a practice drill and that our school is just testing us again our school does at least two practice drills each semester so I played it risky and decided to hang tight but all of a sudden I heard screaming down the hall it was very muffled sounding and I
couldn't make out what was being said all I could hear was the screaming it seemed to have gone on for a couple of minutes I quickly started to realize that we were probably in a real lockdown I panicked and I thought my best bet was to hide somewhere in the library so I hid under the computer desks not the best spot I know but I figured it was better than nothing I kept quiet and waited for the PA to come back on and for it to say the drill was over with but it never did
it must have been 20 minutes of me just lying there in fear I took my phone out at one point and I saw that I had like 20 plus messages from some of my classmates from biology and they asked where I was and that we were in a real lockdown that was when my heart dropped to my stomach and I started to feel sick told them all I was safe and that I was hiding in the library there is nobody else in the library with me as far as I knew because there weren't any teachers
or kids when I first walked in which was actually quite unusual nonetheless it freaked me out even more that I was pretty much alone I just kept waiting in hopes that it was all going to be over soon well it was only just the beginning I didn't know what I had really got myself into by skipping class a few more minutes passed by and the screaming picked back up again and then shortly after I heard someone running through the hall then my worst fear came alive the library door opened and somebody was walking inside scared
as I was I managed to peek my head up to see if I could see who it was but all I could see was a dark shadow of someone that looked like to be around my height I hid back under the desk and that was when I saw a flashlight turn on whoever it was began searching all around all I can remember is praying to God that I was going to be okay eventually the person made their way over to the cubicle I was in by all the computers I knew it was only a matter
of seconds before he were to see me so I jumped out from under the desk again and made myself visible hey I said within a second I had a flashlight pointing at me along with a gun Tyler what the hell are you doing man I asked Tyler was one of my close friends in middle school but we didn't keep up with each other much ever since starting High School through the years we kind of had a falling out and went our separate ways anyways I told him to put the gun down and after almost a
full minute of songs from him he started to break down crying and drop to the floor I kicked the gun away and reassured him that it was going to be okay and I told him that we needed to do the right thing and that he needed to turn himself in if he really wanted any chances of getting better surprisingly he actually listened to me and I walked with him towards the office until he found a teacher and the teacher then led us to the police I as a witness told him everything that I knew and
Tyler also complied 100 as well I'm just happy that Tyler found me rather than someone else I was one of Tyler's only friends in his eyes and if he would have found someone else I'm sure he would have killed them truthfully we really need to raise awareness for this kind of stuff and do everything as a society that we can to limit the violence in school shooting specifically as much as I don't like Tyler for what he did he was a kid who was bullied and picked on his whole life and had a horrible home
life along with different types of mental illnesses I'm sure so really it's no surprise if you think about it what he attempted to do that's usually how it goes down it's deafening and unbelievably horrible that some people are capable of doing things like this and that's to say the least but we really need to do our best to prevent them from happening in the first place [Music]
