Melissa Joan Hart: I helped kids trying to ‘escape’ from Nashville shooting
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Melissa Joan Hart lent a helping hand to a group of small children and teachers who were fleeing the tragic Nashville shooting earlier this week.
The “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” alum, 46, shared in an Instagram video posted Tuesday that she and her husband, Mark Wilkerson, were on their way to a conference at their kids’ school – which was not where the incident occurred but close by – when they ran into the victims.
“We helped a class of kindergarteners across a busy highway that were climbing out of the woods, that were trying to escape the shooter situation at their school,” Hart said, while getting emotional.
“So, we helped all of these tiny little kids cross the road and get their teachers over there and we helped a mom reunite with her children.
I don’t know what to say anymore,” the “Clarissa Explains It All” alum added. “Enough is enough.”
She then encouraged her followers to “pray for the families” and also wrote in her caption, “Prayers today, Action tomorrow. This was too raw to post yesterday but wanted you to hear this story.”
Hart and Wilkerson, also 46, share three sons: Mason, 17, Braden, 15, and Tucker, 10.
Hart said her boys were “luckily” not in school when the shooting occurred on Monday but said this is the second time their family has been in “close proximity” of a national tragedy.
“We moved here from Connecticut, where we were in a school a little ways down from Sandy Hook, so this is our second experience with a school shooting with our kids being in close proximity,” the mom of three said.
Hart later spoke in more detail about her experience on her podcast, “What Women Binge,” Wednesday, noting she will “never forget” the look on one of the teachers’ faces.
The “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” alum, 46, shared in an Instagram video posted Tuesday that she and her husband, Mark Wilkerson, were on their way to a conference at their kids’ school – which was not where the incident occurred but close by – when they ran into the victims.
“We helped a class of kindergarteners across a busy highway that were climbing out of the woods, that were trying to escape the shooter situation at their school,” Hart said, while getting emotional.
“So, we helped all of these tiny little kids cross the road and get their teachers over there and we helped a mom reunite with her children.
I don’t know what to say anymore,” the “Clarissa Explains It All” alum added. “Enough is enough.”
She then encouraged her followers to “pray for the families” and also wrote in her caption, “Prayers today, Action tomorrow. This was too raw to post yesterday but wanted you to hear this story.”
Hart and Wilkerson, also 46, share three sons: Mason, 17, Braden, 15, and Tucker, 10.
Hart said her boys were “luckily” not in school when the shooting occurred on Monday but said this is the second time their family has been in “close proximity” of a national tragedy.
“We moved here from Connecticut, where we were in a school a little ways down from Sandy Hook, so this is our second experience with a school shooting with our kids being in close proximity,” the mom of three said.
Hart later spoke in more detail about her experience on her podcast, “What Women Binge,” Wednesday, noting she will “never forget” the look on one of the teachers’ faces.