While taking a walk down memory lane, Jake Johnson revealed how his mother’s intuition saved him from a school shooting in 1988.
During a recent appearance at Drugs as always On the podcast, Johnson talked about how his mother keeping him home helped him narrowly miss the tragic incident at school. “I was sitting next to my mom, I was in fourth grade,” he recalled. “Out of nowhere, my mother turns to me and says, ‘You’re not going to school tomorrow.’”
Although he had argued with his mother about missing school, Jake Johnson said she refused to let him go. “The next day, May 20, 1988, a woman enters my elementary school through the door where my class was,” he continued. “A woman came into the school dressed in a robe with nothing underneath… The room was empty, she walked in, walked down the hall, went into another room, shot seven children and killed one of them. True story.”
According to ABC7 Chicago, the woman Johnson was referring to was Laurie Dann. She walked into Hubbard Woods Elementary School in Winnetka, Illinois, and opened fire on a second-grade class. In particular, she wounded five, not seven, and killed one. Just before shooting the children, she told them that she had been there to teach them about guns.
After shooting the children, Dann fled the scene, broke into a nearby home, took another child hostage and shot him before turning the gun on herself.
Jake Johnson said he would have quickly noticed Laurie Dann walking into school in a bathrobe.
As he continued to talk about the tragic situation, Jake Johnson stated that he probably would have said something if he had been at school and seen Laurie Dann.
“I used to get into a lot of trouble when I was a kid,” Johnson said. “And he always talked, so the teacher pushed me to the far right, so I sat away from the other kids and I was right next to the door.”
Jake Johnson said he would have quickly noticed a woman dressed in a robe walking into his classroom. He also reportedly commented on the appearance. “She would have said something,” he said. “I would have tried to show off, I would have tried to make people laugh. No doubt”.
Years after the incident, Jake Johnson said he kept asking his mother if she wanted him to stay home that day. “My mom can’t explain why she didn’t want her to go to school,” he added. “I don’t understand”.
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