For seven or eight minutes they kept begging him to come out, some of them saying drop it, put it down, come on out. A long time, then we heard one shot.

He came to our door and was saying, 'My wife needs medication, I need money,' ... He was shaky and my husband told me to close the door, so I did.

He was concerned about going back to the board, ... I do remember saying 'You have to do something,' and he left. I was kind of surprised that there were any transactions from internal accounts. I thought the $1.5 million we borrowed at the start of the month and the $3 million that the school district borrowed later that month would have been sufficient.

We've been saying for weeks that we though Hugh was a difference-maker,

He couldn't sleep, ... He kept saying, 'What should I take? What should I bring?'

People are saying, 'I could buy a bus pass for $77, and I'm paying that much in a week and a half just filling my tank to go to work.