A Minneapolis couple who live a block from Annunciation Catholic School and the church where two children were killed and 18 other people were wounded Wednesday recalled the moments after they heard the gunfire from their home.

Carla and Pedro Maldonado were in their kitchen when they heard the shots and realized after the second round that they were coming from the school.

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“I didn’t want to believe at first that it was gunshots, but immediately my husband knew,” Carla Maldonado told Gadi Schwartz Thursday on NBC News' “Stay Tuned Now.”

She took off toward the back of the school as her husband started driving toward the front. As she was running, Carla said, she came across another mother who lives nearby.

“I felt

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