Jonathan Csapo
Reporting from Washington DC
BBC producer Jonathan Csapo lives in the building where the shooting happened – and was inside at the time.
I was coming down the fire escape, because we heard the fire alarm going off in the building.
As I was coming out, gunshots went off very, very close to where I was.
I could see the smoke, I could see the flash. We just all started running. That was our first instinct.
We immediately ran and took over behind a barricade, a little brick structure just near the building.
We were immediately ushered inside of the building. At this point, the fire department was already on the scene, because the fire alarm had been going off for about three minutes.
And then everybody started screaming.
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