Chris Hall
speaker
312 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2018
last heard May 2025
Chris Hall’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It seemed like a long time and nothing had happened. And it seemed like it got real quiet.
Deborah kept saying, keep your head down, keep your head down. And I looked around, and everybody was gone. And the truck was gone. The four of us gave each other a big hug, and I remember Debra and I telling the kids, we're sorry, we're gonna get you out of here.
We had no cell phone, no nothing, and we had no clue where we were, no sense of north, south, east, or west, no sense of direction because of the fog.
And I said, we got to sit and listen for the ocean. I knew as long as we could find the ocean, we could find our way to help and find our way home. And we started walking.
Deb said, there's a house. I see a light. And she wanted to start walking towards the house, and I didn't think it was a good idea.
Just getting reports of shots fired at Santana High School in Santee.
She went from a little girl that was innocent to seemed like she grew up to an adult right then and there.
We heard some dogs barking. And Deb said, there's dogs, there's a house, I see a light.
Tyler absolutely stood up and shared the burden. He definitely looked after and watched out for his mom and his sister as best he could. We crossed the toll road, not realizing it was the toll road. Got into this housing area, and we yelled for help, and we rang bells, and we banged on doors, and nobody would help us.
When we walked up to the first customs agent, we told him who we were, what had happened to us.
And we said, we don't have any ID or anything. We need a bathroom. We need a phone. We need water. And said, there's a bathroom and a phone at McDonald's across the street. He didn't seem to really care.
We left. They let us leave. We went to the McDonald's like they told us. We didn't know where else to go.
I remember getting home, just being thrilled to be home, happy to be around our dogs, but still worried because they had our driver's license, they had our address, they knew who we were.
Sleep? We don't sleep anymore. A couple hours here, a couple hours there. We don't get a peaceful night's sleep.
Nightmares all the time.
Tyler kind of went into his own little locked himself away kind of thing.
I felt responsible for bringing him to Mexico and I felt like I put him in that situation. Even if I had one gun, there were still eight to ten guys with guns. No matter how I look at this in different directions, the outcome would have been way worse than what it was.
I guess what I did was right because my family's alive and nobody was hurt. but in my mind it sure seems like I could have done something different.
We bought a boat. We all go to the river together. That's our new place to go, I guess. We just had our 25th anniversary. We took our kids to Hawaii for their first time.
Even Tyler still talks about the happy times. Still talks about his favorite burrito shop.
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