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‘I heard him load a gun’: San Bernardino students recall school shooting

‘I heard him load a gun’: San Bernardino students recall school shooting

April 11, 2017

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — Third-grader Jeremy Muschell was returning to his classroom after using the restroom when he heard the first of four loud booms.

“They were really, really loud, and he heard people yelling, ‘No, don’t!’ ” said his mother, Jane Muschell. “He told me he heard [the shooter] reload the gun — cocking the gun.”

And so the nightmare began on Monday morning at North Park Elementary School in San Bernardino, where Cedric Anderson, 53, gunned down his wife, teacher Karen Smith, and killed 8-year-old Jonathan Martinez. Anderson also wounded a 9-year-old child before turning the gun on himself.

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