A young man who survived the shooting attack on a Norway's Utoya Island Friday said he is alive after playing dead near the gunman.
"I was maybe 5, 7 meters away from him," Adrian Pracon told CNN Saturday. "He pointed the gun at me but didn't pull the trigger."
At some point though, the gunman did shoot him in the shoulder, Pracon said.
Pracon said he and others also jumped into frigid water and tried to swim away from the island to escape the chaos.
Adrian Pracon also posted on his Twitter page, "I am so happy to be alive. I got shot in my sholder at Utoya, but this is nothing compared to the proper who have lost their love ones."
kid in the picture is 5-7 meters from the gunman, and has a bloody shoulder wound. is there a possibility that he's Adrian Pracon and thus alive and well?
I felt I couldn't breathe. I already swallowed too much water. I also jumped because I was the last person running to the shore from this man. So I didn't have time to take my clothes off. As I was swimming, I felt the clothes pulling me down because they were heavy boots, clothes," he said.
