BUFFALO, N.Y. Priscilla Geter was standing on the roof-deck of her home on Wednesday, which was draped with an American Flag, and next to it, a Buffalo Bills flag that read Bills Country. She had agreed to talk to a reporter but knew it wouldnt be easy. She thought to herself that if anyone asked or said anything to her about the shooting, tears would immediately flow down her face.

Barely half a mile away was Tops Friendly Market, the grocery store in the predominantly Black neighborhood where an 18-year-old admitted white supremacist opened fire on Saturday. Payton Gendron killed 10 people and wounded three others.

Not long before the shooting, her daughter Schacana came by the house. Priscilla gave her a grocery list, and Schacana drove up a few blocks to Tops.

Schacana called her four times because the store did not have a pot that Priscilla wanted. The fifth call was Schacana screaming for her life.

She called me back, and she was hollering and screaming, Priscilla told HuffPost. Mommy theyre shooting, call 911. Hes shooting in the store.

Priscilla told Schacana to get down and look for some type of safety. Priscilla could hear gunshots ringing out over the phone.

And then Schacana got quiet.

I thought she got shot, Priscilla said. But Schacana was making her way to a backdoor.

Mommy, Im out! Schacana shouted over the phone to her mother.

Though she made it out alive, Priscilla and Schacana said the trauma of the racially motivated shooting has made the last few days very difficult.