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LA LOCHE — Alex Janvier was walking through the halls of La Loche Community School when he heard a teacher yell, “Shooter in the school.”

Alex Janvier, 15, ran back to his Grade 10 class, where fellow students and the teacher were already seated on the floor. He closed the door and the teacher told him to move with them toward the centre of the room.

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The teacher was texting the principal and telling the students to stay calm.

“I was very scared. He was close to us,” Alex Janvier said.

Four people died on Friday, including one teacher, a teacher’s assistant and two relatives of the alleged shooter, who were fatally shot in a La Loche home before the shooter entered the school at around 1 p.m. and began shooting. Multiple other victims in the school were injured, but details about the number of victims and the extent of their injuries were not available.

Alex Janvier estimates that shots rang out, apparently just feet from their door, every 20 or 30 seconds, for a few minutes, before the shooting stopped. Someone then yelled that the RCMP had entered the school.