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A 37-year-old mother, who survived a dozen shots when a suspect opened fire in Cincinnati's fifth building earlier this month, said she implored the police to save her because she had two children who needed their mother.
(WDRB)
A 37-year-old mother, who survived a dozen shots when a suspect opened fire in Cincinnati's fifth building earlier this month, said she implored the police to save her because she had two children who needed their mother.
Whitney Austin, a bank executive, recalled the moments leading up to the Sept. 6 shootout in a Good Morning America interview with ABC on Wednesday.
Austin, who had focused on a conference call upon her arrival at work, said, "It was a burning sensation" when she was hit by a bullet in the building.
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Austin said she feared "dying" once she started spitting blood and wanted to join her loved ones.
"I assumed that he had seen me move and he shot me several times," Austin recalled, adding that she was then pretending to be dead.
That is, until she notices the Cincinnati police and pleads with an officer.
"I have a child of 5 and 7 who needs his mother," she recalls saying at the time. "You must save me! Pick me up!"
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Police finally killed the suspect, Omar Enrique Santa Perez, 29, after killing three others and injuring Austin and another person. Austin was initially listed as being in critical condition after the shooting and was released from the University of Cincinnati Medical Center a few days after undergoing several hours of surgery.
In recounting his experience, Austin told the WDRB that "there is absolutely no other explanation than to believe that it is a miracle".
Associated Press contributed to this report.
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