"About 11:30 a.m., we saw five police cars go flying by and within a minute we heard kids screaming and running past this way and past that way," said Mike Houser, who moved to Mattoon a year ago from Sullivan. "Then we walked out and started trying to calm the kids and kind of find out what happened. They said they were told to go to Riddle, so we started telling all the kids we saw go to Riddle."