He added that he was one of the first people to run out, after he saw three women in front of him bolt for the exit.
“They turned around on a dime and started sprinting out, so I figured that I would join them,” he said.
He added, “People were clearly hustling to get out, but nobody was screaming, at least at the time I was in there.”
Wendy Keffer, 42, was visiting the city from Austin, Texas with her husband and two children. She was walking in for a 4 p.m. slot when they were told to evacuate.
“We were entering the museum and as we were about to walk inside we saw hundreds of people running out and everybody was yelling shooter, shooter,” she said. “It was very scary.”
Jo Walker, 24, a graduate student at Yale University who uses the pronouns they and them, was in a second-floor cafe when the incident occurred. They left through an emergency exit because the escalator was so crowded.
“We had no idea what was going on,” they said.
Gina Heeb contributed reporting.
Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/12/nyregion/moma-stabbing.html
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