A Georgia teen who was pushed into a bathroom to safety by cop as 14-year-old Colt Gray pointed a gun at her during the massacre at Apalachee High School is encouraging people to hug their families, because “you never know when you will see them again,” she says in a teary-eyed TikTok video.
In the clip posted on Sept. 4 – the same day that Gray is accused of opening fire at the high school in Winder, GA, killing four and injuring over 30 – Abby Ayers recalls the bloody event, which started as just “a normal day.”
“I was in second period and I needed to go to the bathroom, so I signed out like anyone else would, took the bathroom pass, went to the bathroom . . . and I started hearing banging,” Ayers begins the 5-minute-and-17-second long TikTok, which has been viewed almost 22 million times.
“So I walked out [of] the bathroom and I didn’t see anything. And then I turned to my left and I see this guy holding a gun, and he points it directly towards me and starts running to me. And I literally froze. I had no idea what to do, like at all.”
Next, “I see the cops running towards me. The cop slams me into the bathroom, tells me to get in the stall and do not open that door no matter what.”
The brave officer has not been identified.
Colt Gray has been charged as an adult with four counts of murder. Barrow County Sheriff’s Office
“I get in the stall and I text my mom and I tell her I love her so much,” the teen continues, her voice breaking, “and there’s an active shooter.”
Not even 10 seconds later, Ayers recalls, “I hear shots firing from every direction . . . I hear people running down the hallway, I hear screams, I hear, ‘Help me.’
“All I can see in my mind is that gun being literally aimed at me, and him running towards me,” she says.
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About 20 fear-filled minutes later – during which Ayers was calling her mom, pleading for her to come to the school – a police officer came into the bathroom to escort her to the library.
“All I can see whenever I get out of that bathroom is blood everywhere and powder – the powder is from the gun. I see bullets everywhere.”
Next, “I see a kid getting literally pulled on a stretcher and the kid is blue and purple, dripping in blood. And I see them put the tarp over them,” Ayers says in the video.
“I see this guy holding a gun, and he points it directly towards me and starts running to me,” Abby Ayers recalled in her TikTok video. Storyful
Ayers captioned another TikTok, “me just knowing if that cop didn’t push me into that bathroom i would’ve died right there.” TikTok @abby.ayerss
While she was in the locked library with other students and teachers, she kept hearing screams, she recalls.
After Gray had been arrested and officers began leading students out of the classrooms and into the outside field around 40 minutes later, “we had to put our hands up and keep our heads up – they told us not to look around.”
However, “I looked down this one hallway and there was blood all over the walls, with a handprint,” Ayers says.
Four were killed and over 30 were injured during the shooting at Apalachee High School on Sept. 4. ZUMAPRESS.com
“I just physically cannot believe that what happened today happened.
“All I can say is, y’all, literally hug your family. You will never know when you’ll ever see them again. Cause I thought today that I was gonna die. I literally told my mom, I said, ‘I love you so much. If anything happens, just know I love you,’” the teen continues while fighting back tears.
Ayers, who does not say how old she is or what grade she’s in, did not return messages from The Post.
“All I can say is, y’all, literally hug your family. You will never know when you’ll ever see them again,” Ayers says. ERIK S LESSER/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
Later on Sept. 4, she posted another TikTok video with the caption “me just knowing if that cop didn’t push me into that bathroom i would’ve died right there.”
Gray, who allegedly told authorities “I did it” immediately after the event, has been charged as an adult with four counts of murder. His father, Colin Gray, was also arrested and charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder and eight counts of cruelty to children.
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