{"id":121982,"date":"2024-11-04T14:22:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T07:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=121982"},"modified":"2024-11-04T14:22:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T07:22:02","slug":"victims-of-vancouver-mall-shooting-break-silence-and-express-gratitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=121982","title":{"rendered":"Victims of Vancouver mall shooting break silence and express gratitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Daniel Martin was just trying to take his children out trick or treating at the Vancouver Mall.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE | <a href=\"https:\/\/katu.com\/news\/local\/vancouver-police-arrest-suspect-in-deadly-halloween-mall-shooter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/katu.com\/news\/local\/vancouver-police-arrest-suspect-in-deadly-halloween-mall-shooter\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"noopener\">Vancouver police arrest suspect in deadly Halloween mall shooting<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter about 40 minutes of trick-or-treating, we went to the food court. After having, like, a single bite of the burrito,  I heard like four pops, and in my head I&#8217;m like, that can&#8217;t be a gun,\u201d said Daniel Martin, a survivor of the Halloween night shooting. &#8220;And then I feel something hit my foot, and it was, like, immediate, okay, yeah, no, this is a gun. There&#8217;s a shooter behind me. I was sitting next to my five-year-old, so I just grabbed her and dove behind a dumpster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Vancouver Police, the shooter was wearing a Halloween mask.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had seen him for a split second, and he was just unloading the rest of his magazine into the body on the ground,\u201d said Martin.<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver Police say the shooter was specifically targeting the person he killed.  As Daniel&#8217;s children sobbed, they noticed his foot was bleeding. It turned out he had a bullet lodged in it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m just like, you girls are so brave. I&#8217;m so proud of you, because I&#8217;m just trying to keep them focused on me, and I&#8217;m also at any moment, the shooter could just come around the corner, and it would be over,\u201d said Martin.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Leyrer is the children&#8217;s step father. He heroically rescued Daniel&#8217;s three-year-old, then he went to find his girlfriend,  who is also the children&#8217;s mother, just to find out he too was collateral damage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy the time I got over there, she put me down on the ground and tell her that I was hit in my ribs, just below my ribs,\u201d said Leyrer.<\/p>\n<p>Two good samaritans stepped in to help stop the bleeding. \u201cHe came over and took a shirt off, helped hold compression down on my gunshot wound on my ribs and I forget your name, I think it&#8217;s Elijah but I want to say thank you truly for being there for me and I hope to meet you one day,\u201d said Leyrer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE | <a href=\"https:\/\/katu.com\/news\/local\/vancouver-mall-shooting-was-targeted-attack-suspect-wore-halloween-mask-police\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/katu.com\/news\/local\/vancouver-mall-shooting-was-targeted-attack-suspect-wore-halloween-mask-police\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"noopener\">Deadly Vancouver Mall shooting was targeted attack, suspect wore Halloween mask: police<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don&#8217;t know who gave me their belt to use as a tourniquet but whoever did thank you for that,\u201d said Martin.<\/p>\n<p>The family is inundated with medical fees and they want to send the kids to therapy. 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