One of the teenagers shot at Ladd Peebles Stadium is now at home recovering.
One of the five people who was shot on the ramp on the west side of Ladd Peebles Stadium says as a Vigor student she was there with her family and friends to watch the big homecoming game against their rivals, Williamson.
For her and her family’s safety, they asked to remain anonymous.
“I was walking out of the stadium like from the bleachers part down the steps and I saw a crowd of people walking towards the rampway so I thought the game was over with,” the victim said.
Just seconds later chaos overwhelmed the crowd.
“So when I turned around gunshots just started going off and that’s when I had got hit in my leg and I just started running trying to run with one leg and then I went towards the stadium where everybody was and I just started laying there,” the victim said.
Her mom says that’s when she received the most terrifying phone call from another relative saying her daughter had been shot.
“She got shot in her leg but they still didn’t know how bad it was. So she came to pick me up and took me out to the hospital,” her mom said.
The mother says she wasn’t concerned about her daughter's safety at the game that night.
“Unfortunately, it wasn’t safe enough,” her mom said.
So she started asking questions and her relatives told her the metal detectors were taken down at halftime possibly allowing the shooter to come in.
“People were just coming in there and I said, ‘Well they don’t stop them?’ and she said well they just walk in there at halftime,” her mom said.
Which she says is unacceptable and if the entrance was secure her family might not be going through this.
“So they need to step up the security and make sure our kids are going to be safe because it seems like there’s nowhere that they can go where somebody’s not getting shot, killed, traumatized by different stuff. It’s devastating,” her mom said.
The victim says she wants to feel safe again and the family is asking the community to put down the guns.
“When you hurt one person you hurt everybody. And on both sides of the family, it’s just not fair,” her mom said.
The family says she is expected to recover and will likely need physical therapy.