Mom who survived school shooting coaches son through Oregon attack: Please be as quiet as possible

A mom who survived a school shooting over two decades ago tragically found herself coaching her son through the same trauma when a deranged gunman stormed into an Oregon elementary school Thursday, according to a report.Michelle, who did not share her last name, sent a bone-chilling string of texts to her boy assuring him he and his brother would survive the bloodshed — and repeatedly reminding him: “I love you so much.”“I was just in shock.I was like, how can this happen? How can lightning strike twice?” Michelle told CNN.“How can I go through this and then my children go through this?”Michelle’s fifth-grader called her from his Apple Watch at 1 p.m.

Thursday — just one minute after authorities were called after teen gunman Griffin J.John II fired his first shot outside Silver Rail Elementary School.“Mom, there’s a shooter,” the boy told her, a terrifying message he confirmed in a text moments later, first scrambling to write “shroterr” before following up with, “shooter at school.”“Baby I love you don’t call anyone please be as quiet as possible,” Michelle responded.“If you can safely, text me, that’s OK just don’t make any calls.

The police are going to help you.I love you so much.

Do you know anything that’s going on?” she asked.An hour later, she followed up with her son asking him questions, telling him “I love you so much” and continuing to comfort the youngster.“Everything is going to be okay.

This happened to me too, and I am okay,” she wrote to the boy, which was the first time she ever revealed to her kids the trauma she went through, she told CNN.“I love you so much.It’s going to be okay,” Michelle wrote.“They will load you on the bus and it will be kind of slow but we will get to you, I promise.”Michelle was a freshman at Granite Hills High School in El Cajon, California, when senior Jason Anthony Hoffman opened fire in a March 2001 attack.He wounded three students and two teachers, ...