Divinia Hall
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57 appearances
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1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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Because of how big my dad's truck was, we couldn't see my mom and my brother. So we rounded the back of the truck, and my brother was laying face down, and so was my mom. And both of their bodies were covered with a sleeping bag. And right then and there, I thought they were dead.
They forced my dad and I down on the ground with my mom and my brother.
I could hear my brother crying and I could feel him shaking. We all just laid there and they threw a pillow on the back of my dad and I's head. At that point, I really thought this was it, execution style, to the back of the head, all of us laying here. We were going to die. I told my brother that I loved him. I told my mom and dad that I loved them. It was kind of like, just wait for it.
You know, is this gonna hurt? Am I gonna know what just happened? But it never came.
And we laid there and the truck drove away. And we laid there. And they were gone. They were just gone. And after probably 10 minutes of laying there, my dad got brave enough to stick his head up and look around and realized there was nobody around.
Our first reaction was to get up, get out, get away. My mom wanted to find a place to stay until daylight so we could see what we were doing, where we were going. And everybody else felt, no, we need to get out of this situation. What if they come back?
We were all in shorts because we had just come from Cabo where it was 90 degrees out. Being the middle of November, in the middle of the night, it was about 48 degrees, I believe.
We probably walked down the mountain for 45 minutes to an hour. We saw a light, a very faint light in the distance. And it was a trailer, and we could hear dogs barking.
And so my mom started yelling, help. Somebody came out and fired two rounds in our direction. Now we're getting shot at.
We ducked and hit the ground just trying to get as low as possible to get out of any potential line of fire.
If you don't prepare yourself for the worst, you know, how are you going to get through it when it comes? You're not necessarily always safe when you think you are. In 2001, my freshman year of high school, there was a school shooting.
I walked into class and I instantly started hearing popping noises.
I happened to be in a cooking class. You could hear screaming and just chaos.
People were running into the classroom saying, he's got a gun. There's somebody with a gun. The next hallway over from where I was, another freshman was coming out of the bathroom, just shooting. No real target, just shooting. The SWAT team came into the classroom. It was a team of three or four men. They had us one by one go out of the classroom.
The shooter was Andy Williams. He was a fellow freshman. It was a kid that said he was bullied.
She was really scared. It was instant crying and hugging and just so happy to see them. I mean, he took two lives, and he permanently mentally wounded a lot of people.
I think the school shooting forced me to grow up a lot faster than most teenagers grow up.
I'm in flip-flops. My mom's in flip-flops. Everybody's in sandals. It's very slippery. My legs were getting cut up by the brush, and we kept falling.
And my mom told the woman, if you don't hear from us in a few hours, please call my dad, so my grandpa. And the woman said, you'll be fine. They're going to take you home. These police are going to take you home. And she wrote down their names, their truck number, their license plate number, every detail about them.
And when they were driving us to the border, they were going away that I've never been to the border. And I think that made my mom and I both very nervous. The officer that was driving, he shook his head and he looked down and said, you need to go home. It's not safe for you in here.
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