What was supposed to be a fifth grader’s first week back in school was instead spent hiding under church pews as a shooter opened fire, killing two and wounding 17 others.

Ten-year-old Weston Halsne was hearing Mass with his classmates at the Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis on Wednesday morning when shots began to pierce through the building’s stained glass windows.

“The shots were right next to me,” Halsne told KARE 11, an NBC affiliate in Minneapolis. “The first one, I was like, ‘What is that? I thought it was just something. Then I heard it again. I just ran under the pew, and then I covered my head.”

Halsne made it out of the “super scary” scenario unscathed thanks to a heroic friend.

“My friend Victor saved me, though, because he laid on top of me, but he got hit,” Hal

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