'They were scared. I was scared. We were all scared.'
That's when he jumped into action — and may have saved more than 150 people thanks to his quick thinking.
Serna led what he believed to be about 100 customers and employees through a fire exit and told them to get inside four shipping containers. He then closed the doors, hiding them safely inside.Walmart employees pay their respects at a makeshift memorial for the shooting victims at the Cielo Vista Mall Walmart in El Paso.
But Serna didn't stop there. Rather than get inside one of the containers himself, he then walked along the side of the building toward the parking lot, where a number of people — including a girls soccer team who'd been outside fundraising — were standing out in the open.in there with an AK-47 shooting up the place.""That’s when it registered with me that this was a mass shooting," Serna said.
Walmart credited its mandatory “active shooter” program that employees are supposed to complete quarterly for helping save lives during the attack Saturday. "They taught us how to avoid the shooter and defend ourselves," said Serna, who could not recall the last time he had received the training."They teach us ADD: Avoid, Deny, Defend — deny him access, put a thing in front of a door, defend yourself as the need arises."
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