‘Petrified’ guests at the WHCD shooting recall horror as shots rang out: ‘I thought about my son’

Source: New York Post

      Richard Strauss thought of his son when chaos and panic erupted at the White House Correspondents Dinner amid gunshots. In the terrifying seconds after an alleged gunman sprinted through a security checkpoint, the DC communications strategist found himself sprawled on the floor of the Washington Hilton ballroom — surrounded by panicked guests as his mind raced to the one thing that mattered most. “It was scary.