Posted at: 11/06/2009 4:56 PM
Updated at: 11/06/2009 5:24 PM
By: Jessica Layton
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Fort Hood shooting leaves Albany family on edge
An Albany High School student and her Grandmother watched in horror Thursday as details came in of the shooting at Fort Hood in Texas. They were terrified that a family member could be in harm's way.
That family member is the student's mother and the Grandmother's daughter. She's a nurse at Fort Hood and was there when gunfire erupted.
Both women say they are exhausted but more relieved than they've ever been in their lives.
47 year old Captain Tina Holloway is a nurse practitioner at Fort Hood. Her mother, Aroma, owns a beauty salon on Clinton Street in Albany and Tina's daughter is a senior at Albany High.
Captain Holloway was eating lunch outside that medical processing center Thursday when she heard gunshots and was told to run for her life.
She was okay but her family didn't know that for a terrifying two hours. Then they got the best phone call of their lives.
"When she could get to the phone she said quickly, I'm okay, can't talk now, on lockdown," says Captain Holloway's mother, Aroma Thompson.
"I was just praying, just praying," adds Thompson.
"We watched the news just about all day yesterday," says daughter Ayesha Holloway.
"M
y heart goes out to the families who aren't as fortunate as we are," she adds.
Ayesha and Aroma both put a lot of faith in God and something else they can't stop thinking about is the fact that Tina normally didn't eat her lunch outside. She very easily could have been inside that building when gunfire erupted.
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