Andy Murray Survived Mass School Shooting, The Tennis Champ Reveals in His New Book!
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ANDY Murray survived a horrific mass school shooting 16 years ago.
The 25-year-old British tennis star — who battled his way to win the U.S. Open championship and an Olympic gold medal in London — was just eight when he managed to scurry away and hide from shooter Thomas Hamilton who walked into his primary school, guns blazing, killing 16 children aged five to six and one adult.
The March 1996 attack was one of the worst firearm incidents in UK history and it made Murray’s hometown of Dunblane synonymous with mass shootings, much like the Columbine high school massacre in the U.S.
Murray was walking towards the gym where the slaughter took place, but dove under a desk in his headmaster’s office when the shooting started.
The tennis player rarely talks about the incident, but in his autobiography Hitting Back, he said, “Some of my friends’ brothers and sisters were killed.
“I have only retained patchy impressions of that day, such as being in a classroom singing songs.
“The weirdest thing was that we knew the guy,. He had been in my mum’s car. It’s obviously weird to think you had a murderer in your car, sitting next to your mum.
“That is probably another reason why I don’t want to look back at it.
“It is just so uncomfortable to think that it was someone we knew from the Boys Club…Then to find out he’s a murder was something my brain couldn’t cope with.”
“I could have been one of those children.”
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