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Article snippet: Shortly after 3 o’clock on Tuesday afternoon, Carolyn Montgomery-Forant, a singer and pianist who was preparing for a rehearsal in her Midtown apartment, received a text message from her 13-year-old son, Eli, an eighth grader at Hudson River Middle School. It said that he had just witnessed a car accident and that he was watching a man emerging from a vehicle with two guns. A second text was not immediately forthcoming. Running out of the house without locking the door, Ms. Montgomery-Forant headed toward the C train stop on Eighth Avenue and 50th Street to get downtown. On the way, she received another note from her son explaining that the school was now in lockdown. Was there an active shooter in the building? There was no way to know. What followed was a text stream with three other parents, “all of us feeling helpless,” she said, which flowed for the next several hours. Hudson River Middle is a small progressive public school on Warren Street at the corner of West Street, one short block south of where Sayfullo Saipov crashed his rental truck into a school bus on Halloween, after plowing the truck down a crowded bike path along the river, killing eight people and injuring a dozen, including two students on the bus. The building also houses a second school — P.S. 89, the Liberty School — which serves children from prekindergarten through fifth grade, who were being let out on Tuesday afternoon while the attack was unfolding. Children and parents and caregivers... Link to the full article to read more