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ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Rochester police are still searching for the person who fired several rounds on the campus of Franklin High School earlier this month.

Authorities say an armed suspect chased a 16-year-old student toward the school and fired at him as he tried to enter the building. Two other students near the entrance were also in the line of fire, according to police; however, no one was struck by the gunfire.

One of those students, a 14-year-old ninth grader, spoke about the ordeal, the trauma she still faces and what she wants to see done.

“I thought it was just going to be a fun day," the student said. "Because me and my friend ... love going to gym. So we were just going to have a fun day. We had it all planned out.”

Security footage shows the student and her friend approach the school and the terrifying moments that follow.

“And we got to the door and my best friend rang the bell,” the student said. “And we were just having a conversation. And that’s when we hear one bullet go boom.”

The student says she fears for her safety and wants her identity protected.

“And me and her slam to the door and started to like bang the door for somebody to open it,” she said. 

Security footage shows the gunmen firing at point-blank range as the kids cowered in the doorway.

“He just ran towards us,” she said. “And that’s when they kept shooting. And then more bullets just started heading this way.”

Amazingly, no one was hit by the gunfire.

“My mind just kind of blanked out,” she said. “And I just needed to get into the building. That’s all I thought of, All I know is I just heard bullets and I’m going to get inside.”

“I got a call from the principal letting me know that my daughter and her friend was a witness,” the student’s mother said. “That’s all he said, ‘a witness of a shooting.’ That’s all he said."

The girl’s mother is also remaining anonymous to protect her daughter’s identity.

“So I didn’t get to know that this was really serious until the next day, Friday," her mother said. “That’s when I saw a picture. I just saw the picture. That’s it. That’s how I know how close the guy was to my daughter.”

Then she saw the video of the incident.

“When I saw that video, forget it,” her mother said. “That’s when I started crying. I was sick to my stomach. I could have lost my daughter. That’s all I thought, that I could have lost my daughter that day. I could have received a call that said my daughter was killed.”

The crime prompted an immediate temporary decision to assign police officers to Franklin and four other Rochester schools during arrival and dismissal times. The move was supported by this family, as this student has yet to return since the incident occurred the first week of January.

“I don’t feel like safe going back,” the student said. “I’ll feel better if they have more police throughout the whole day. Like, more police [and] more security guards everywhere. Because I’ll feel more safer with that.”

“I think they need to have police every day in schools nowadays with all the violence and shootings that’s happening in schools, yes,” her mother said. “I don’t think that’s going to traumatize the kids. Kids probably feel more safe having police in the schools.”

The Rochester City School District does have a remote services team of counselors, social workers and others available, including members from Pathways to Peace. The family does say Pathways to Peace has been a helpful resource.

“She has dreams about it,” her mother said. “She’ll be talking and then one minute she gets up and goes away and starts crying.”

This high school freshman says she knows how lucky she is to be alive and says she recognizes that she is still trying to process everything that happened.

“It was scary and traumatic,” the student said. “I never knew that would actually happen to me.”

Rochester City Council gave approval Tuesday night for police officers to be stationed at certain city school districts during arrival and dismissal times.

This includes Franklin High School, Edison Tech, Wilson Magnet High School, Northeast College Prep and East High School.