JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A student hit by glass when a bullet came through his Jefferson Davis Middle School classroom window Thursday gave a vivid account of what happened at the Westside school.
The window of the civics classroom at Jefferson Davis was boarded up Friday.
Witnesses told police a person jumped out of a charcoal-colored vehicle around 2:30 p.m. Thursday and shot multiple times at someone walking down a road facing the school.
One bullet missed the intended target and went into the school.
A 13-year-old student, who asked not to be identified, said he was in the classroom and his teacher did a great job maintaining control.
"I was just nervous, like, cause I didn't expect it," he said. "When we saw the hole, we looked at the window. She looked at us. She said, ‘Hurry up and get on the ground immediately.’ So we jumped down and we crawled over there close with our back against the wall."
Glass hit four students.
The teen said glass landed in one girl's eye and hit two other students in the leg.
"Glass hit my neck and my jacket, got all over my jacket, and I shook my jacket off as I was crawling to get to where she told us to get to," he said.
The fire department examined all of the students. None had injuries serious enough to be taken to the hospital.
The mom of a 14-year-old girl hit by glass said her daughter is fine physically, but mentally is shaken up.
She said her daughter could feel the heat of the bullet as it passed by her face.
"I don't expect nothing like that to happen while I'm at school," the 13-year-old boy said. "I'm thinking we're just going there to have fun and learn and stuff, but I guess other things can happen."