What It's Like To Survive A Mass Shooting
“That was the moment I started thinking about death.”
This is Mindy Finkelstein, a survivor of a shooting by a white supremacist at the LA Jewish Community Center in 1999. Mindy agreed to tell us about her experience and how it affects her life to this day.
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“I was working as a camp counselor when I was 16 years old at the Jewish Community Center.”
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“As we walked to the front of the building, a man walked in… and started shooting. He shot off about 70 rounds of ammunition. He shot me first, and then he just started spraying. He showed up on a day when there were a lot of kids there — about 350.”
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“I lost a lot of blood, and I couldn’t keep running. I lay down and played dead until I heard sirens.”
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