Ryan Guidus was out with his 7-month-old daughter when he heard shots ring out at Cook's Corner. He ran and hid in the hills before using a helpful mountain biker's phone to tell his family the two were okay.
First, he thought it was fireworks. But when screaming began and more shots followed, the bar’s popular weekly spaghetti night turned into every parent’s worst nightmare as"I just reached into the stroller and ejected my daughter out of that thing, ripped her out of there as fast as I could," Guidus told The Associated Press on Friday. "It was all a blur, it happened so fast.
Mountain bikers, finishing up a ride in the area, then helped him navigate the brush, one lifting a tree branch for him and his mother-in-law to crawl under, as they escaped to a nearby parking lot. He borrowed another mountain biker’s cellphone — he’d dropped his own in the stroller — to call his wife and his parents."I can’t stop hugging and kissing her," Guidus said. "I obviously pray to God that she doesn’t remember this. I assume she won’t.
Authorities said John Snowling killed three people Wednesday, including his wife’s dining companion and a man who approached him as Snowling retrieved additional guns from his truck, and wounded six others. Snowling was fatally shot by deputies within minutes of the rampage.
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