OXFORD (WWJ) -- The story of an Oxford High School student's survival began when he ran to a nearby warehouse for help with a gunshot wound to his leg during Tuesday afternoon's mass shooting.
Everett Roper, a man who works at the warehouse said his employee picked up the victim, a young man, who was running away from the high school.
"I think his adrenaline had him so pumped up that he was able to just keep running even though he was shot in the leg," Roper told WWJ's Charlie Langton. "He was very upset and very confused."
Roper said the student was bleeding and that his wound looked like the gunshot went through one side of his lower leg and out the other side.
Roper and his employees cleaned up the student's wound, called 911 and then called the student's mother who rushed him to the hospital.
"We're both parents with kids at that school and so we were concerned for our kids and just thinking 'hopefully we can do something for this kid that we would want someone to do for our kid.'"
Roper said that he doesn't consider himself a hero.
"I think we pretty much did what anyone else would've done."
The student is said to be stable.
