Nora Mayral Boyle- Interview 1

Nora Mayral Boyle
Dr. Roddy
IHSS Challenge Project
30 April 2020
Last Thursday, I conducted my first interview, with a friend that went to Bellaire. He told me what happened the day of the shooting, from his perspective. At the end of the school  day,  he had been talking in the hallways, with his friends, around 4:15, when they saw people running, and a teacher approached him, and told him to evacuate the building. “I had absolutely no idea what was happening.” He ended up waiting about 15-30 minutes, before some teachers explained what was happening. Some of his friends saw the victim of the shooting get rushed into the ambulance, but he didn’t. Initially, they had wanted to return the day following the incident, but they received an incredible amount of backlash, and gave students one day off. The next week, everything has changed. There were police officers checking every single bag. There are 3,500 kids at Bellaire, and they were all in a single line getting their bags checked. However, after that one week, which was so secure, everything seemed to have gone back. In his opinion, there was no real way to have prevented it, since there's always a possibility of such an incident happening. The only real way it could’ve been prevented was metal detectors. But now, barely anything has changed at Bellaire High School, aside from an extra few security guards, everything is back to normal. “Scary, you know? Somebody on the property had a gun. Who knows how many people have a gun on property?”
As of  now, my plan to make a pamphlet discussing gun violence in school still stands, and I’m  preparing for my second interview later today.


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