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(NewsNation) — A miss who survived the Minneapolis Catholic schoolhouse shooting has been near successful a "complete authorities of fear" and made a devastating confession aft the tragedy, according to her father.
Two children were killed Wednesday erstwhile a shooter opened occurrence connected kids arsenic they were praying astatine a Mass celebrating students' instrumentality to school. Seventeen different radical were wounded, including 14 children.
Vincent Francoual's 11-year-old daughter, Chloe, is simply a sixth-grader astatine the Annunciation School. Francoual, who is primitively from France, tells "CUOMO" that she is traumatized by the tragedy.
He said his girl made a devastating remark aft surviving the shooting.
School shooting subsister near traumatized
"We conscionable came backmost from France, and sometimes we gag we're going to determination back," Francoual said. "And she ne'er wanted to bash it.
"And the archetypal happening that she said connected the mode location was, 'I privation to determination backmost to France.' I don't privation to spell to school."
Francoual said helium tried to instrumentality his canine extracurricular for a locomotion aft returning location with his daughter. But Chloe was truthful frightened, she "didn't privation him to get retired of the house."
"She started to fastener everything successful the house, adjacent each the windows," Francoual said.
"She made america committedness that we won't fell thing from what happened today."
Vincent Francoual feared schoolhouse shooting
Francoual recalled having a speech with his woman a twelvemonth agone astir being disquieted astir schoolhouse shootings, adjacent aft surviving successful the United States for immoderate time.
"I told her, 'Every clip you driblet your kids disconnected astatine school, you conscionable don't cognize if you're going to spot them again,'" helium said. "And God forbid, it happened today."
Police identified the shooter arsenic Robin Westman and said the guns utilized successful the shooting were precocious purchased and legal.
Francoual said the aftermath won't beryllium casual but he's gladsome to person radical astir him who volition assistance the household cope.
"We're going to instrumentality this 1 time astatine a time. It's a large community, the administration. It's similar a tiny colony successful a large city," helium said.
