Denver Native (Carol)
01-18-2014, 02:14 PM
Eric Decker has lived it, hidden in a dark library closet, quarantined by fear. The Broncos wide receiver has felt it, that feeling to which the students at Arapahoe High School can now relate. Sadly, they are not the only students who can relate.
"We didn't know what to think," said Decker, who hid for 45 minutes after the 2003 shooting of two students at his Minnesota high school. "Every girl was crying, every guy was trying to stay calm, and when they came and got us, we had to go across the street to the elementary school with our hands up. You see snipers on the top of the buildings, it's just surreal. That moment, you'll never forget.
"It changes your life in a second."
In the days after the Dec. 13 shooting at Arapahoe High, Decker recorded a video message to the school's students.
rest - plus video - Eric's message to Arapahoe students
http://www.denverpost.com/broncos/ci_24938918/broncos-receiver-eric-decker-comforts-arapahoe-high-students
"We didn't know what to think," said Decker, who hid for 45 minutes after the 2003 shooting of two students at his Minnesota high school. "Every girl was crying, every guy was trying to stay calm, and when they came and got us, we had to go across the street to the elementary school with our hands up. You see snipers on the top of the buildings, it's just surreal. That moment, you'll never forget.
"It changes your life in a second."
In the days after the Dec. 13 shooting at Arapahoe High, Decker recorded a video message to the school's students.
rest - plus video - Eric's message to Arapahoe students
http://www.denverpost.com/broncos/ci_24938918/broncos-receiver-eric-decker-comforts-arapahoe-high-students