Bestselling Author Writes Book on Mass Shooting

CHICAGO, November 8, 2018 (Newswire.com) - On January 6, 2017, Author William Hazelgrove was returning from a cruise with his family and had a layover in Ft Lauderdale International Airport. Their lives changed forever when Esteban Santiago opened fire in Terminal 2 and killed five people. Hazelgrove was in Terminal 1 when shots erupted there as well, and he and his family ran for their lives. What followed was twelve harrowing hours of being stuck in a locked down "active situation" as the police hunted for other shooters.

"You don't think it will happen to you," the Bestselling author of 15 books said in a recent interview. "I saw all these police cars, and then the air became electric. I saw on CNN there had been a shooting in the other terminal and then we heard four shots, and everyone just ran." Hazelgrove and his family were eventually evacuated along with ten thousand other people that night. "People were running on the tarmac, hiding in bushes, just trying to stay out of the line of bullets."

I wanted to understand how we got from the Second Amendments Right to Bear Arms to Columbine and Sandy Hook.

William Hazelgrove, Author

When Hazelgrove reached a hotel where his family was stranded for two days until the airport reopened. It was there he came up with the idea of writing a book about the shooting but also the history of mass shootings in America. "I wanted to understand how we got from the Second Amendments Right to Bear Arms to Columbine and Sandy Hook and others." He called his agent, and Prometheus Books bought the rights. "Shots Fired in Terminal 2" was released this year.

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