Hours after gunfire ripped through the Central Station Bar & Grill, Dodge City is still in shock, with many saying they can’t believe something like this happened here. “There’s two mothers right now that aren’t going to be able to hug their children. So I just hugged her and we just talked,” resident Regina Heavener said. Shortly after 1 a.m., Heavener received a phone call that shook her to her core. Her daughter, Carlee, who is a bartender at Central Station, was feet away from where a gunman opened fire at a Halloween party at the bar. The shooting claimed the lives of two partygoers and injured two others. Carlee says she thought she heard the sounds of balloons popping before it became clear to her that this had turned into a tragic event. “It felt like time stood still. And then moments later, it was a round of fires. And I’m almost positive it was seven because I heard a ‘bop bop, bop, bop, bop, bop bop,'” Carlee said. Carlee says the bar cleared out fast after the series of shots rang out. She says she did what she could to protect people who were still in the bar taking cover.
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