Oxford High School survivor helps brother survive Michigan State University mass shooting

OXFORD, Mich. – One of many college students barricaded in his room at Michigan State College spent the evening texting together with his brother, who survived being shot at Oxford Excessive Faculty.

Caleb Watson was so absorbed in a analysis paper he was engaged on he had no concept what was transpiring exterior of Berkey and the MSU Pupil Union till his mom known as.

“She mentioned, ‘Are you OK,’” mentioned Watson. “And I used to be like, ‘Why wouldn’t I be?”

His mother Linda instructed him there was an lively shooter on campus. He checked his e mail to see the alert from the college and ended up barricading himself like so many others for hours.

Watson had one thing no one else had, although. A brother on the cellphone who survived being shot at Oxford Excessive Faculty.

“Aiden requested me if I used to be OK after which simply began texting me recommendation on the right way to survive,” Watson mentioned.

Aiden Watson was shot within the leg in the course of the capturing at Oxford Excessive Faculty. His restoration had been lengthy and exhausting on all the Watson household.

Now the household has the excellence of getting their boys in the midst of two separate faculty shootings. A membership nobody desires to affix.

“Going to MSU, I didn’t have to consider it, I didn’t must see it, and I might get pleasure from simply being a standard school scholar, however now even that’s been ripped away from me.”

Caleb mentioned earlier than he returns to campus, he would love the college to beef up safety at all the halls and on the union and/or make them accessible solely to college students and college.

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