Oregon Shooting Survivor Prayed That Her Family Would Find Peace If She Died

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Last week, 18-year-old freshman Anastasia Boylan was shot by the deranged murderer (whose name I will not use) at Oregon’s Umpqua Community College, but survived to tell her tale by playing dead.

ABC News got an exclusive interview with Boylan, who is now recovering.

“Last thing I remembered praying was that my family and my loved ones and that the family and loved ones of my peers would somehow know that we’re all OK,” she [Boylan] said, “and that they could somehow find peace.”

From her wheelchair inside the Oregon hospital that helped save her from a gunshot wound to the back, Boylan recounted the terrifying nine minutes inside the Roseburg school last Thursday, when gunman Chris Harper-Mercer, 26, opened fire, killing nine people before shooting himself to death.

Boylan said he even spoke to them. “He sounded really deranged,” she said, “because he said he had been waiting to do that for a really long time and he laughed.” …

… Boylan also said the man had a question for each of his victims.

“He had us all get up one by one and asked us what our religions were,” Boylan said.

One student was shot when said his religion. “The shooter said that he would only feel pain for a couple of seconds and that he would be with God soon and then he shot him,” Boylan recalled.

Read or watch the full interview at ABC News.com.