Wounded Woman Who Shielded Her Son From Dallas Sniper Ready To March
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DALLAS (CBSMiami/AP) — A 37-year-old Texas woman who was wounded when she threw herself over her son during the attack on a Dallas protest march says she would go to another demonstration to show she's not a quitter.
Shetamia Taylor, who attended the march with her four sons, also thanked Dallas police for protecting her in the chaos that erupted Thursday night. Taylor was one of two civilians wounded in the attack, which killed five Dallas officers and injured seven others.
She was released from the hospital Sunday.
"It was hundreds of rounds," Taylor said in a press conference at the Baylor Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center. "I had never heard anything like that before."
She says officers shielded her as bullets whizzed through the air around them.
"I felt the bullet. I don't know if it bounced off the ground or what, but I felt it when it hit me in the back of my leg," she said. "And my son Andrew had turned around to grab me cause he didn't, I guess he turned around to see where I was and he went to grab me, but I had already been shot. So I had grabbed... tackled him."
Two officers were shot right in front of her.
"I saw him go down. I saw him when he got hit and he slumped over and as he was slumping over, he said he has a gun, run! I don't think he made it. I don't think he made it," Taylor recalled, with tears in her eyes. "I saw another officer. I saw another officer get shot right there in front of me."
Taylor says she always held police officers "in a very high place" and notes that her youngest son wants to be a cop.
As gunfire erupted, her three other three boys ran away from the scene ahead of her.
Other officers watched over Taylor and her son as the shots continued. During a pause in the gunfire, they managed to get them to a police cruiser and then to the hospital.
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