Barrett Hudson was shot seven times during the shooting at Club Q this weekend, but none of the bullets pierced any vital organs.
“I was hit seven times in the back with an AR-15, up and down from the top of my back to my bottom. I got very lucky it missed all my organs — my colon, my spine, my lungs. There’s no way I shoulda walked out of there and I’m very, very appreciative for life and for you guys to interview me and get my side of the story,” he told CNN in an interview from his hospital bed. “Maybe I can help somebody else and be strong — for me as well as other people.”
Hudson recently moved to Colorado and decided to check out the club with his friend on Saturday night.
“I’ve never heard gunshots in a club before that. I had heard popping balloons and it kinda sounds like that because the music’s so loud, and you really think, ‘that’s not a gun.’ And I heard ‘pop pop pop pop pop pop pop,’ and I look right and I see a door kinda shut, and there’s the gunman,” he said, recognizing the weapon because he has one at home.
“There was a man in front of him, he put his hands up a little bit and took two steps back, and the dude just killed him,��� Hudson said. “That’s when I took off running with some other people. I got hit seven times, I fell down, I got back up. There were two double doors in the back, I ran out of the one on the right so I immediately went right and, I’m shot seven times through all this.”
Hudson kept running, hopped a barbed wire fence and made it to a nearby 7-Eleven convenience store.
“That’s where I was screaming for help that I was shot. I had thought I got shot once or twice, but I got shot seven times,” he said.
While medical personnel were counting his wounds, Hudson called his dad, who he considers his best friend. “I wanted him to hear my voice,” he said, taking a few emotional breaths.
“I got lucky. I know I’m very fortunate to be here, and I’m keeping a strong head on, I’m very strong-willed,” he said.
After the interview, Hudson walked for the first time since the shooting.
Source: www.cnn.com