BUFFALO, N.Y. — Fragrance Harris Stanfield, a mother of seven, was at work at a Tops grocery store in Buffalo, New York, when she heard gunshots.
"We all looked toward the front door. We saw the security guard backing up, reaching for his weapon. And we ran," she said.
One of Stanfield's children -- her 20-year-old daughter -- was also working at the store, at register 6."I didn't know where she was. And I just thought, if she's gone, I gotta get out of here. She's got babies -- she has a newborn, and she has a 3-year-old, so I still had to get out. If I went back for her and she was gone, I would be gone, too. And then they'll have nobody," Stanfield said, overcome with emotion."So I still ran and ran out the back.
Stanfield later learned her daughter was crouched down by a register during the gunfire and witnessed two people get shot. Stanfield said her daughter"covered her face" when the gunman walked by so he"wouldn’t hear her breathing."Stanfield and her daughter were among those who escaped alive on Saturday when a gunman killed 10 people -- all of whom were Black -- at a Buffalo supermarket. Authorities are calling the massacre a"racially-motivated hate crime." The 18-year-old suspected gunman is in custody.
Annette Parker and her 9-year-old daughter were walking out of a Family Dollar store, just a few feet away from the grocery store, when they heard gunshots."My mother lives down the street ... so I ran towards her house," she said.But Parker, with tears in her eyes, said hate won’t stop her from going back.ABC News' Stephanie Ramos, Katie O'Brien and Matt Foster contributed to this report.
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