JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) — It’s been a year since a student at White Oak High School was shot across the street from the school.
That student is now speaking out. A day that was supposed to be just a normal after school outing with friends quickly became a nightmare for Madalyn Till.
“I’m just glad that what happened isn’t as bad as it could have been. Like, it was just like a chunk of my leg,” she said. Till was getting pizza with friends across the street from her high school. Then, an ex-boyfriend of a friend of hers approached them.
“He took her phone and threw it over there into the grass and I was like kind of frazzled,” Till said. She said she took her friend inside the restaurant until the ex-boyfriend left. Once they came back outside, Till said everything seemed normal until chaos happened.
“As I’m walking to come this way, I freeze and I feel a sharp pain in my leg and I can’t hear anything. And everything is like slow motion,” she said. “And I pulled up my pant leg and there was a chunk of my leg missing. And so all I could think of the moment was that was just gunshots. I just got shot.”