Bank exec told shooting responders: Save my life for my kids
CINCINNATI — Believing she was dying after a gunman riddled her body with bullets, a bank executive said Wednesday she urged first responders to save her life for her two small children.
Whitney Austin, 37, survived 12 gunshots Sept. 6. She recounted her ordeal in a taped interview shown Wednesday on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
Intent on a conference call she was taking part in on her cellphone that morning, she walked into the lobby as other people tried to signal her away. The gunman shot her as she entered.
“It felt like a burning sensation,” she said, and when she began coughing up blood, “My brain immediately went toward: “I’m dying.’”