Girl shot in head at Minneapolis school asked bystander, 'Please just hold my hand'

When Pat Scallen heard gunshots around the corner from his Minneapolis home, "I didn't know exactly what it was at first, but after about the 10th shot, I knew something was wrong," he recalled.

Scallen raced to the Annunciation Catholic School, where he said he saw a magazine on the ground by the church.

"It was eerily quiet. And then I immediately turned and ran to the front of the church, and right at that time everyone was coming out. And it was chaotic," Scallen told "Good Morning America" on Thursday.

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