As you may have already heard, early this morning a gunman walked into a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises and opened fire. 50 people were injured and 12 were killed, including San Antonio native Jessica Ghawi.
Ghawi was an aspiring sportscaster who worked in the media, and she also kept a blog of her own. And in a sad and stunning turn of events, it seems that her last blog entry was about how she barely avoided being at a shooting in Toronto last month.
In her final post, entitled “Late Night Thoughts on the Eaton Center Shooting,” Ghwai meditated on what made her leave the scene just minutes before a gunman opened fire:
I can’t get this odd feeling out of my chest. This empty, almost sickening feeling won’t go away. I noticed this feeling when I was in the Eaton Center in Toronto just seconds before someone opened fire in the food court. An odd feeling which led me to go outside and unknowingly out of harm‘s way. It’s hard for me to wrap my mind around how a weird feeling saved me from being in the middle of a deadly shooting.
You can read the rest of the entry over at Ghwai’s blog. [via Deadspin]
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my prayers goes to this lovely female’s family. im sorry To: the friends and famiy
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My thoughts are with her family and friends. I am sorry for everyone who lost someone they knew in the shooting.
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This happened 20 minutes away from where I grew up and where my parents live. It is sickening. He is a complete psycho, and even his mother in san diego knew it was him before anyone else. She called the cops. His apartment is so booby trapped that the cops can’t get in without getting harmed. He went in to the theater before the movie, propped open the exit door, went out to his car and got bombs and guns, came back and set off the bombs at both of the exits, and started casually walking up and down the aisles shooting anyone and everyone. You failed to even tell the facts besides the body count. Another basically useless post from lovelyish. Great job.
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@voodoo_flower_child@xanga - I don’t think the purpose of this post was to inform a reader of all of the facts from the event; there are plenty of very credible new industries doing that already. Unless you are an idiot, you don’t follow Lovelyish for its top rated news and journalistic stories. It’s not like someone if force feeding these posts to you, if they don’t somehow enrich your life, don’t read them.
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@voodoo_flower_child@xanga - Speaking of facts…. he didn’t set off “bombs”, it was some form of tear gas. When I started reading about the tragedy last night my LAST thought of a source was lovelyish. I think they tried to make a post that shared part of a story that by this point we’re all already informed about.
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@voodoo_flower_child@xanga - The post is about the girl’s prior experience. The author rightly included enough information for the readers to know which shooting she passed from.
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@voodoo_flower_child@xanga - This post wasn’t about the shooter or to give facts about that night. We can get the facts from the news. This post was about this girl. Great Job.
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so sad and tragic. Now I imagine how she had an odd feeling again and maybe dismissed it, because what are the chances of being in such a place twice, you wonder.
I really wonder that now. Is the world getting so much more violent?
It’s so sad that people had to die like that.
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@under_the_carpet@xanga - Great question: is the world getting more violent? I don’t think so. I think that we are so much more connected now with social media and the press, that we hear about it more.