"All the people that were in the cafeteria, we all panicked," said Ward, after she was rescued.
"We were trying to decide on which way we were going to run out. People that were working in the cafeteria wanted to stay there and hide but I just ran."
"A few of us just ran out of the side exit, there we saw the security guard. She told us to run to shelter and keep running. Someone had put on the fire alarm. That's when I heard police flood, everybody was just coming and the call of sirens."
At about the same time, Naval Capt. Mark Vandroff was conducting his department's usual 8 a.m. meeting in a third-floor conference room.
"Once we heard the gunshots, and realized they were gunshots, we got down on the floor, closed the door to the conference room, barricaded ourselves in," Vandroff told Xinhua.
"We took a big conference table, flipped it over and wedged it up the door. Then we got away from the door, thinking that was the safest thing," he added.
