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trip to the grocery store turned into a fight for survival at a King Soopers in Boulder, Colorado. The shooter entered the store Monday afternoon and opened fire, killing 10 people -- including the first Boulder police officer to arrive on the scene.
While families agonized for hours waiting to learn the fate of their missing loved ones, several survivors described the surreal attack.
'I just nearly got killed for getting a soda'
When the gunfire started, some customers were confused.
"Maybe somebody dropped something," Ryan Borowski said. "The second shot came. And then after that, it was, 'Bam, bam, bam!' And I was running."
He and others bolted and "busted through the back doors to the employee area," Borowski said.
"The employees looked at us with shock," he said. "We had to tell them, 'Gun, gun, gun! Run, run, run!' And they made sure we didn't go down any dead ends."
Customers and employees worked together to quickly navigate the twists and turns in the back of the grocery store.
"We were all running, single file, finding our way through the maze of the back of the house," Borowski said.
"I had my hand on somebody else's back, and somebody had their hand on my back, so nobody was tripping or falling."
About a dozen people managed to escape with him out a back door, ducking underneath a trailer before reaching safety, he said.
Later, he realized safety is never guaranteed.
"Boulder feels like a bubble, and the bubble burst," Borowski said. "This feels like the safest spot in America, and I just nearly got killed for getting a soda and a bag of chips."
