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  • Library shooting: 'I heard the gunshots ... too many to count'

    Scott Jones, Special to The News|Updated Aug 30, 2017

    My mind is racing and my heart is broken. I don’t really want to talk about what happened, but I want to write down my feelings while they are fresh. On Monday, a young kid entered the Clovis-Carver Public Library where I work and started shooting. I heard the gunshots, too many to count but enough to know something was wrong. Still, the surrealty of the situation was so intense that when I left my office and saw people running, my friends and colleagues literally running for their lives, I stood motionless and e...