![]() ![]() Reed has become a police officer, and silently keeps tabs on all of the people who survived that night. Years pass, and the survivors of the shooting are still putting their lives back together. ![]() He sees a laughing teenage boy firing shot after shot into innocent bystanders, and he calls 911 as he, and the toddler he’s saved, hide in the sunglasses kiosk – near Angie’s lifeless body. Reed is rushing to get back to work on time when he hears the shots, then the screaming. Reed is using his break time to chat up Angie, the cute girl working a sunglasses kiosk, and make plans with his best friend, who works at the nearby GameStop. ![]() She calls 911 – she’ll always be remembered as being the first to call – and hides in the bathroom while the two shooters continue their killing spree. She assumes it’s the soundtrack of the movie she’s missing, until she nears the theater door and a wild-eyed, bloody man falls in front of her. On a typical Friday night Simone is coming out of the mall’s movie theater restroom when she hears the gunshots. Ripped from the headlines has never been a more accurate description for a book than it is for Shelter in Place. ![]()
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