The shooting Thursday morning at Aztec High School in northern New Mexico could have been significantly worse had it not been for heroes who locked the school down and the police officers who ran inside.
There were two heroes in particular, according to San Juan Shereiff Ken Christesen. One is a custodian, Thomas Hill, who ran around the school yelling for people to lock down. The other is substitute teacher Katie Potter. When Potter heard the shots being fired, she knew she had to hide the 17 students in her classroom.
“I heard popping sounds down the hall, going pop, pop, pop. I looked in the hall and the custodian, Hill, was in the hall and he was saying, who are you? I could tell he was frantic and I knew what was going on,” said Potter.
Potter knew both victims, Francisco Fernandez and Casey Marquez. She described them both as popular, all-American students.
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