When Jerome Bridges heard gunshots ring out Saturday in a Buffalo, New York, supermarket, he ran to lead some of his coworkers and customers to safety in the store’s break room and barricaded them inside with a heavy desk.
“That’s all you heard was firing, constant firing — firing and firing and firing,” said Bridges, who is a scan coordinator at Tops Friendly Markets.
“People were scattering around the place, they was screaming, crying, yelling, talking about, ‘There’s a shooter in the store.'”
After retreating with people to the break room, Bridges tried to keep them quiet because the shots were getting closer to food displays that were near them, he told CNN.
“I just wanted to make sure I kept the customers and my other three coworkers very safe. So, even if I would have died, it would have been, you know, me dying protecting them,” he said.Read More….
