Monday of this week, a female employee of Loomis was shot while working on an atm. Charrlotte Day School was near where the employe was shot and was placed on lockdown after the incident. You can read that article here.
One of the witnesses opened up and talked to WBTV today about the incident. This person was Ola Antonissen. She was walking out of the Curves at Foxcroft shopping center when she heard a gunshot.
When she heard the shots fired, her eyes went toward a Wells Fargo ATM in the middle of the parking lot.
"I saw the door to the ATM, the back door where nobody usually goes in, I saw it was open and I thought that was strange. Then I saw somebody run to the left really fast, and somebody sort of run to the right. I was more focused on the person running to the left just because that was where my eye drew," she said.
As fate would have it, Antonissen was looking at the suspected shooter. At the time, she wasn't certain if she was looking at the shooter or the victim. All she saw was a hunched over figure in a grey sweat suit leaving the scene.
"I was trying to figure out what to do to protect myself first of all, because I didn't know if it was one of these shootouts where somebody just goes shooting," said Antonissen.
A gut feeling told her to stand still and keep quiet, which she did. She didn't stand alone in the parking lot before two men came out of a nearby building to see what had happened.
The police showed up a few minutes later after an unknown person called, then authorities took a statement from Antonissen and investigated the shooting.
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