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Norbert

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Wed Sep 12, 2018, 02:15 AM Sep 2018

Cincinnati Shooting Victims Released from Hospital.

CINCINNATI -- Fifth Third Bank vice president Whitney Austin, the second surviving victim of the Sept. 6 shooting at Fifth Third Center, was Tuesday discharged from the University of Cincinnati Medical Center.

In an interview from her hospital bed, Austin said bullets greeted her that morning as she stepped through the center's revolving doors. Gunman Omar Santa-Perez shot her a total of 12 times -- first as she entered and then as she reached for her cell phone.

When police arrived and killed Santa-Perez minutes later, paramedics carried Austin out of the building and into an ambulance.

"I have a 5-year-old and a 7-year-old, and they need their mommy," she recalled telling them. "I need to be OK."

Her husband, Waller Austin, said he was optimistic about a full recovery involving further surgery as well as physical and occupational therapy. He also said he and his wife planned to make themselves vocal about the issue of limiting gun access, especially for people with a history of mental illness like Santa-Perez


https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/hamilton-county/cincinnati/whitney-austin-fifth-third-bank-vp-shot-12-times-released-from-hospital
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