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Jake Johnsonnarrowly missed a school shooting because of his mother’s intuition.
“I was sitting next to my mom, I was in fourth grade,” theNew Girlalum said onDope as Usualearlier this week. “Out of nowhere, my mother turns to me and goes, ‘You’re not going to school tomorrow.’”
It was a field trip day, and Johnson argued at the time that he wanted to keep his normal routine, but his mom won the argument.
“The next day — May 20, 1988 — a woman walks into my elementary school through the door that my class was in,” he recalled. “A woman walked into the school wearing a robe and nothing underneath. … The room was empty, she walked through, walked down the hall, walked into another room, shot seven kids, killed one of them. True story.”
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Looking back, Johnson admits that his natural tendency to fall back on comedy could have made a horrific situation worse. “I would have said something,” he guessed of possibly seeing Dann in her robe at his school. “I would have tried to show off, I would have tried to get laughs. There’s no question.”
Noting that he and his mother rarely talk about the incident, he added, “My mom cannot explain why she did not want me to go to school.”
source: people.com
