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A hero account employee died in the Virginia Beach massacre after leaving a safe place to try to save his friends at work, revealed Sunday.
Pastor Ryan Keith Cox's 50-year-old son accompanied nine city staff to a secure room as gunfire erupted in the municipal building on Friday, according to NPR.
As the group began to barricade themselves with a heavy cabinet, Cox left in the hope of saving others.
"He said, 'Stay here, stay silent,'" Christi Dewar, a close friend of 60, told the station.
"I said," Come on, "and he said," I have to go check on the others. "
Their shelter was quickly targeted – and Cox, on the defenseless outside, became one of the 12 massacred, while all those inside the rest room have survived.
"Two bullets are almost in the back of the cabinet," Dewar said.
"We fell to the ground and then we heard other gunshots close to us.
"It's when he got Keith," Dewar told NPR, choking.
She remembered a cop warning her not to look down when she was finally driving out of the building.
"Down the stairs, I had to step over one of my friends," she recalls.
She called Cox her privileged link with Cox. "I called her my big teddy bear," she told NPR. "Every time I was upset, he gave me a hug.
"It's the kind of person who, you know, would give his life for someone, as he did."
She was also shocked that another colleague, DeWayne Craddock, 40, may be the killer.
"He was very well dressed. He had a soft voice, "she said.
"If he had a weapon in his back and was approaching me, I would have gone up to talk to him.
"I would have no way of knowing."
She said that he was silent throughout the massacre.
"Not a word has been mentioned in her mouth," she says. "It was like it was methodical. He had a plan. And he executed it. He knew exactly what he was doing and where he was going.
Dewar is now asking all offices in the city for metal detectors.
"I would be happy to do a search every day if it did not allow this to happen again," she told NPR.
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