Postal worker inside the room when shots were fired in Iowa postal shooting talks with KCCI

Dan Ramirez said he initially thought something had fallen when a thunderously loud noise startled him and his co-workers.

They froze, not yet realizing they were hearing gunfire.

“I heard a crack, and then I heard a crack, crack,” said Ramirez.

After the second crack, he said, nearly everyone in the room began running away from the noise.

“In my head, I’m like, just get away from the noise,” he said. “I still don’t know what is going on. If I get away from the noise, I will be safe.”

He recalled no one screaming, only the eerie sound of feet running.

Ramirez said he was most afraid as he ran through an empty room and heard the shots moving. “I’m a big guy,” he said. “I’m not the fastest person.”

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