ABC News’ Kayna Whitworth spoke with Averianna Patton, a former high school teammate of the Nashville shooting suspect, who received a troubling message before the attack. ABC News Live Prime, Monday through Friday at 7EST and 9EST WATCH ABC News live here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_Ma8oQLmSM SUBSCRIBE to ABC NEWS: https://bit. ly/2vZb6yP See more at http://abcnews.go.com/ LIKE ABC News on FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/abcnews FOLLOW ABC News on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/abc #Nashville #Shooter #Classmate #ABCNLPrimar
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Such an incredible young woman. I can’t imagine what she is feeling. She responded perfectly!!
Nothing shocking about school shootings happening when you have breakdown of families due to sin which has resulted in drug addiction, isolation, kids without strong family relationships relying on TV and video games to teach them growing up. In the 1950's and anytime before, we hever had this problems and guns were legal and obtainable just like they are now.
The girl handled herself well.
The report even tried to bait her, then slipped up.
Love how the reporter slipped with "So why did (she)….. why…. why were you reached out to?" 4:19
ooo…. the misgender slip might cost her a job.
This reporter should be fired she had no mercy and no emotions
Very sad man.
Should have called cops, didn't dropped ball now she unintentionally has blood on her hands
bunch of hoes talking sh***t but nothing doing to stop arms sales……….
Where is Nashville
Was she in love with her middle school friend.
She tried! My heart breaks for her.
Averianna you did what was right and you also answered this reporters questions with grace, kindness and integrity.
We need more women like you in the world!
She's getting her 15 minutes she should go too jail now ok,
Love her response and not being goated: I'm not here to point any fingers
God bless you 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
i hope she's getting the help she needs to process all of this. This is traumatic for her
Here is an example of a woman who was raised right. Consulted with her father right away, and tried to do everything she could to help a friend. She should be proud of herself for her efforts.
I’m so sorry I hope averianna knows it not a her fault it upsetting for every one
It's obvious the shooter like her and never told her before her transition to a transexual
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I’m glad to see how careful she was about the information. She even went back to her phone to check the time line
lady you should of called the police your dad gave you the wrong information
She texted her at 9:57 and then 15 minutes later shots fired. She must have texted her just before she was about to enter the school probably from her car in the parking lot.
Don't ever give up your guns. This is a problem with our schools, not a gun problem. Evil people will find a weapon somehow. If a person wants to hurt others, they will find some way, whether it's a gun or not. How about we pay teachers more, so that they are happier to be at school and can extend their attention and instruction to students more fully? How about we shorten the length of the school day, so kids can actually be kids? All they need to study is math, science, social studies, and language. Why are they stuck inside a stuffy building all day, every day? Kids only need to be in school for five hours a day, maximum. We treat them like factory workers, and then we're confused when they hate their lives. School shootings are a CULTURAL and SOCIETAL problem. This is a problem with THE SYSTEM. The idea that banning certain kinds of guns will fix school shootings is along the same lines of thinking as the idea that closing all small businesses down would stop the spread of covid. It is so dumb and so far away from actual solutions that it's almost laughable. The sick system is telling the sick system to give up its weapons, to fix the sick system. We do not need gun control, we need to implement serious changes to the school system. GUN CONTROL IS NOT GOING TO WORK. It never has, it never will. Throughout history, without fail, every single nation that has given up its weapons has been brutally massacred by its government quickly and efficiently, almost as if that was the sole purpose of removing weapons in the first place……
We can't predict people's precise actions or read their minds.
What other life that monster is burning in hell 🙂
Why all the side comments from the interviewer…
Don’t give the killer any attention, forget them and don’t even mention their issues to excuse them.
Why don't they ask this 'former classmate' how much Homeland Security paid her to lie her ass off in all this scripted interviews as gun control propaganda for another scheduled active sh00ter drill??
The reporter needed to shut up. She was trying to bait her. Horrible Horrible
This girl did exactly what she should've done.
And she stuck to the facts despite the anchor woman's "steered" questions.
What an idiot reporter! What does she even mean, do you feel the system fell apart??? Do better
lady!
The interviewer feels awkward because is live. Specially for you Americans this will feel weird.
To go through this and to know that the evil person who committed this awful crime it will be a long process to heal especially when the killer message her …my heart goes out to the families and the victims and also her because she's gonna need therapy for this terrible act of violence….
"Do you have any thoughts on why she may have done this?" Now that would be a question a true journalist would ask…but no..what we have here is a narrative engineer. This attempt failed. The goal? Take the focus off the assassin and the assassin's MOTIVES.