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Seconds to live: Shotgun attack survivor recalls deadly day

Holly Anderson, left, talks with her friend's daughter, Danni Malone, as she uses a walker to get around her best friend's home Wednesday, June 3, 2015, in Chattanooga, Tenn. Anderson has been staying there ever since her husband, Jeffery Held, shot her twice in the legs with a shotgun in the parking lot of an Ooltewah shopping center in April before turning the gun on himself. (Doug Strickland/Chattanooga Times Free Press via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT THE DAILY CITIZEN OUT; CLEVELAND DAILY BANNER OUT; NOOGA.COM OUT; LOCAL INTERNET OUT Holly Anderson, left, talks with her friend's daughter, Danni Malone, as she uses a walker to get around her best friend's home Wednesday, June 3, 2015, in Chattanooga, Tenn. Anderson has been staying there ever since her husband, Jeffery Held, shot her twice in the legs with a shotgun in the parking lot of an Ooltewah shopping center in April before turning the gun on himself. (Doug Strickland/Chattanooga Times Free Press via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT THE DAILY CITIZEN OUT; CLEVELAND DAILY BANNER OUT; NOOGA.COM OUT; LOCAL INTERNET OUT

By Associated Press June 13, 2015 1 min read

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) – Holly Anderson didn’t have any premonition of trouble on April 26 when her estranged husband asked her to meet him outside the store where she worked in Collegedale.

She walked out to meet Jeffery Held, standing by his red pickup across the parking lot from the store.

Then he pulled a shotgun out of his truck. He leveled it at her, standing just a few feet away.

Then he cocked the shotgun and pulled the trigger.

Anderson has flashbacks and nightmares about the shooting. She has good days and bad days.

In her dreams, she sees all the other ways the day could have ended, replayed over and over again.

When she wakes up, she’s thankful that it wasn’t worse.

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Information from: Chattanooga Times Free Press, https://www.timesfreepress.com