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When Howe woke up to the news on Sunday morning, immediate calls for prayers beamed across telephone lines, internet lines, satellite waves and all forms of communications

The youngest of six Harvey kids began the roughest week of his young life with a neck brace, breathing tube, and straps to keep him down

Meanwhile, back in his hometown, his friends began a prayer chain and the entire school system was asked to wear blue in his honor

Prayers were beginning to be answered on Monday morning when the young athlete began to write on a dry erase board, "I love you" with his opposite hand By late Monday, Tate was answering questions by giving thumbs up or down Emotional moments were spent with his siblings from a hug from big brother Ty to a threat to paint his toenails from his older sister With friends visiting him, he wrote on his dry erase board, "I love you all "

On Tuesday, the swelling peak began for his face, brain, and body Still on the ventilator, and still very thirsty, Tate was able to respond well to oral commands

During all of the traumatic moments for parents Brice and Keri Harvey, they relayed messages to Michelle Carney who kept friends of the family updated

On Tuesday, the family found out that he fractured every portion of his face other than between his nose and upper lip The initial focus was on the life-threatening fractures

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round," said Carroll "What you've heard on TV, you can magnify that by four to five times "

With bullets landing all around them, the two laying under and over mounds of people were able to touch one another to let them know they were near

"They lady laying on top of me says that another lady is bleeding," said Carroll "I'm looking up and probably 10 feet away from me I saw blood on the lady

At that point, Ross said that they made the decision to run and get away

"We're going to get shot laying here like a sitting duck or we're going to get shot running," said Ross "So we just took off running "

The only place to exit was in a small single-person makeshift narrow ramp The venue was closed in by a fence, but by the time they got out of the narrow exit, someone had already knocked the fence down The ladies, in flip flops, took off their shoes and ran to the left to an 18wheeler where they ducked underneath the trailer

While hunkered under the trailer, they began to wonder if the shooters were inside the arena about to make their way and kill everyone else

"We sat there for a minute, we don't know how long, but people started yelling, 'get to the Hooter's Casino,'" said Carroll

The two take off running across a gravel parking lot that initially looked to have no way out They found some cars that were parked for the concert and decided to get under a large 4x4 jacked up pickup

At that point, they called their family and Ross was able to get in touch of her husband Brian, but Carroll's husband Shawn did not answer She was, however, able to reach her daughter Sloan With only three percent battery remaining on her phone, she told her that she wasn't safe yet, but told her that she loved her and to tell her dad the same

"We did all of that," said Ross "The firing is still going on and we don't know how we're going to get out from underneath the truck and get to where we need to go "

Nearby, they witnessed a young man that people had secured on the ground and were trying to find a tourniquet Being two cars away from the street, they witnessed herds of injured people being carried to trucks and piling in to head to the hospital

Deciding to make a move, they ran towards an apartment complex where they came upon a SWAT team telling them to run and get away Hiding between electrical boxes for a few moments and discussing plans to the Hooters Casino that they now could see, Carroll and Ross ran through more apartment complexes near a wall where people were screaming for them to get down.

"We finally got to the back of Hooters and the security guard said, 'come on in, it's safe here' so we just sat down on the floor because we had been running," said Carroll

At that point, they felt safe and Ross decided to go to the restroom Carroll began to realize that she didn't want to be away from Ross so she made her way towards the entrance to find the restroom But at that time, the loud shooting sounded again and people thought that it was from inside Hooters The crowd stampeded back to the doorway where Carroll was waiting for Ross Being knocked over by the stampede, she then began to follow the crowd up a stairwell

At the sixth floor, Carroll decided she was getting too far away from Ross so she stepped out on to a floor Meanwhile, Ross now finds herself locked in the bathroom with approximately 50 other terrified people Carroll, on the sixth floor with four others, finds a laundry room with a lock from the inside The room had water, sheets, and a

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