El Segundo coach talks about what it took
, was not a regular gig for M Street. The night of the shooting was the first time the band had played on the bar's smaller, indoor stage. They had played the larger, outdoor stage several times, Stretch said.
Then Stretch saw a man walk in to the left of the stage with a pistol in each hand. He said it looked like the man was shooting up into the ceiling. Since the beginning of 2023, 476 mass shootings have taken place in the U.S., according to the nonprofitMore than 2,000 people were injured in those shootings and 533 people were killed, including 25 suspects.Stretch ran out a door to the parking lot to get away from the gunfire. He saw that there was blood on his jeans but he felt OK."I thought it was just, you know, a graze," he said. Later, he would realize the bullet went cleanly through his buttock.
Later, his kids would tease him, in the kind of way only tragedy survivors can, about the terse content."Like, really, that's it, Dad? That's the last words I'm going to get from you?" Stretch remembered them saying. Stretch credits"dumb luck" with the fact that the bullet that struck him caused minimal damage."It went through me like butter," he said.Means, who was shot in the arm, was equally lucky. Stretch noticed his bandmate wiggling his fingers in his adjacent bed at the hospital."I said, 'Hey, do you think you can make a D chord?' And he makes a D chord shape with his hand."His relative good fortune has made him feel both delighted and a little guilty.
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