Blake Neff

So I was not with Mikey, or I don't remember being with him.

I think I was ahead of him as we left.

And then we get out, and I run for, must have, can't have been more than 15 or 20 seconds.

And then I realize there hasn't been another shot, so the shooter has likely been detained or stopped or something, not in immediate danger.

I pause, I look around me, and I see Mikey.

And I see Mikey there.

And I'll never... Truthfully, I will never forget what I saw because I've seen Mikey almost every day for the past two years.

I know his personality very well.

He's a very bubbly guy.

He's a very happy guy almost all of the time.

And I'll never forget what I saw because it was clear in the moment that he was...

profoundly freaked out.

What I'll always remember is the way his lip was quivering, which I'd never seen before.

And you very rarely see from someone that he was freaking out.

And then I think he literally said to me, I might be imagining this, but I think what he literally said was, he was looking around and then he says,

I need to call Erica.

Then he takes his phone, and he begins calling Erica, and I don't want to disclose how that call unfolded, but he did that.

Your mind extends all of this, but that is happening within a minute of all of this occurring.

I remember he calls Erica.

around the same time I pull out my phone and I call my mom just to say mom there's been a shooting you're going to see it on the news I'm okay you know pray for me I've got to go and I remember that call and I around the time I put that phone away and then he immediately calls his dad he calls Rob McCoy and he says dad someone shot Charlie you need to call all of your pastor friends Charlie was hit we need everyone to pray right now and that's what he told him and