Anntonia Taylor, a Lynnfield, Massachusetts native and senior at Bates College, joins Radio Boston from the school's campus, which is reeling in the wake of yesterday's mass shooting.
Anntonia Taylor, who is from Lynnfield, Massachusetts, was at dance rehearsal when her school, Bates College, went into lockdown Wednesday night.
Bates, located in Lewiston, Maine, shut down as mass shootings took place in town, killing 18 people. Lewiston remains under a shelter-in-place order on Thursday as the suspect remains at large.Interview has been edited lightly for clarity"We were trying to look around the studio and around the gym for food, there were some snacks, but there wasn't really much to do. We were nervous at first because no one had a phone charger, and so a lot of our phones were dying.
"I think some of us got, some people were able to sleep. I personally knew my parents wanted to hear from me as much as possible. And I wanted to make sure that there was at least somebody that was awake, especially since I felt partially responsible as the person whose rehearsal was there, I called all my dancers there. I ended up kind of nodding off a few times, but in the 13 hours I was there, I maybe got like, an hour of sleep, max by accident. It was all very nerve wracking.
"It was a bit of a process waiting to hear back from when things would be, when we'd be able to even leave the building, because we'd been there all night at that point, and we're wondering if we're going to have to stay there for the next day. Thankfully, that didn't have to happen. We took a . The city is still on lockdown. Everything is eerily quiet. It's just helicopters going over the campus.""I chose Bates as a school because of the community.
"The people here are all about community and there's such a connection. And seeing this happen to this community is just so heartbreaking because everyone's going to know somebody and everyone is going to be affected. And it feels like this was actively trying to harm and go after the community. I don't want it to break the community."
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