"Virginia Beach’s darkest hour": 12 dead in shooting – CBS News

Employees describe shooting scene

Megan Banton, an employee who works in the building, told WTKR she could only think about making it home safe to her baby.

“I have an 11-month old baby at home and all I could think about was him and trying to make it home to him,” Branton said.

Sheila Cook, an employee at the courthouse in the building, said her coworkers didn’t realize how close they were to the gunshots.

“We heard shooting, but we didn’t think it was that close, like in proximity of the building,” she said. “Thank God they were able to alert us in time. If it had been 10 minutes, we would have been outside.”