A teacher was fortunate to dodge a bullet during the St Louis high school shooting – but discovered shortly after that his son had been hit.
Manfret McGhee, who is Central Visual and Performing Arts High School’s dean of arts, was in a meeting on Monday morning when he heard an announcement of an active shooter on campus. The gunman killed two, before being shot dead by police.
‘I stepped into the hallway to find out a little more about what was going on and at that moment the shooter was in the hallway and fired a shot at myself and another coworker,’ he told KDSK.
As McGhee ran for cover and hid in a bathroom, all he had on his mind was his youngest son, Anthony, 16, who was in health class. McGhee, who did not have his cell phone with him, listened for gunshots and came out when he felt it was safe.
McGhee was then told that his son had been shot, and ran to the second floor classroom.