“It sounded like small gunfire,” Griekspoor recalled, imitating the noise as “Bap, bap, bap.”
“You look up, and you just see the truck going through a line of people,” he added.
Case said she was horrified when she realized what was happening.
“The moment that I recognized that that wasn’t gunshots, that that was bodies, I lost it,” she said. “I lost it because it wasn’t just adults. It was also children.”
Two killed, 10 injured
As emergency crews arrived, spectators were already helping the injured, including several young children who had been struck by the truck.
“There are a lot of silent heroes that I know experienced much worse than I did, having to do mouth-to-mouth or CPR on somebody that’d been ran over by a truck,” Case said.
According to Wichita Police, 6-year-old Cole Adrian and 35-year-old Nicholas Schafer, both from McPherson, Kansas, died from their injuries. Schafer, a father of three, and Adrian are not related.
