Editor’s note: This story contains details of a mass casualty event and gun violence.
A month after a school shooting took the lives of three teammates and wounded him and another student, Virginia football player Mike Hollins, who was also shot, spoke publicly for the first time to recount the tragic night with Good Morning America‘s Michael Strahan on Thursday.
Hollins was shot in the back and underwent multiple surgeries before eventually being released from the hospital after a weeklong stay. The shooting occurred on a charter bus as a group of students were returning from a field trip in Washington, D.C. Virginia players Lavel Davis Jr., Devin Chandler and D’Sean Perry were killed.