(CNN)Army perfluorocarbon. Glendon Annie Oakley was buying a jersey Sat once a baby came into the metropolis, Texas, store and aforementioned there was a shooter at the near Walmart.





Oakley told CNN nobody within the store, as well as him, paid attention as a result of they did not perceive what the kid was talking about. Annie Oakley aforementioned he then walked to a different store.

That's once things went wrong.

"I simply detected 2 gunshots and an entire bunch of individuals started running around and screaming," Annie Oakley aforementioned.

As mayhem erupted over the future 5 to seven minutes, the armed Annie Oakley planned to travel with others WHO ran out of the shop toward the gunshots.





"But I see an entire bunch of children running around while not their oldsters. solely factor I believe of develops as several youngsters I will as potential," Annie Oakley aforementioned.

He and another man began corralling kids. there have been concerning thirteen, Annie Oakley aforementioned, however, he may solely carry 3.

"I was simply centered on the youngsters, I wasn't extremely distressed concerning myself. thus simply place my head down and simply ran as quick as I may," he said. "They were anxious, after they were in my arms, they were attempting to leap out of my arms however attempting to stay them as tight as potential. they're youngsters so that they do not perceive what's occurring."

Once he saw police, he aforementioned he let the youngsters go and force out his phone "in case they were planning to shoot Pine Tree State and began recording whereas I used to be running."

Oakley aforementioned he wasn't involved along with his safety, rather obtaining the kids out of harm's means.

"I was simply considering if I had a baby and that I wasn't around, however, I might wish another man to react if they saw my kid running around," Annie Oakley aforementioned.





Oakley told CNN affiliate KFOX that he did what he was purported to do and he does not wish the limelight on him.

"I know it was heroic, and I am checked out as a hero for it, however, that wasn't the rationale on behalf of me ...," he aforementioned as he burst down in tears Sunday. "I'm simply centered on the youngsters I couldn't get and therefore the families that were lost. It hurts Pine Tree State, like, they were a part of Pine Tree State. I do not even apprehend those who died or the youngsters that I took with Pine Tree State ... I would like to achieve resolute the families that were lost and therefore the families that lost their kids as a result of the main target mustn't air Pine Tree State."

CNN tried to achieve the soldier on Sunday.

Oakley aforementioned the media's focus ought to air the planet and therefore the shooting in Ohio.

"The spotlight mustn't air Pine Tree State immediately," he said. "I would like the media to travel resolutely the families and make certain they are OK ... I perceive what I did was heroic, however, I did that as a result of that is what I used to be trained to try to and that is what the military has educated Pine Tree State to try to to."