‘My daughter was just there to feed her family...’ Father of midtown shooting survivor speaks

ATLANTA — The father of the youngest survivor of the shooting rampage inside the Northside Medical building in Midtown said his daughter underwent a second surgery Thursday.

Jazzmin Daniel is 25-years-old, and her father Quentin Daniel spoke to Channel 2’s Courtney Francisco one day after the mass shooting.

“They said, ‘Get to my daughter.’ They didn’t tell me what was going on,” said Daniel.

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While the metro watched on lockdown, Daniel said he was answering that terrifying call. He said he and his wife were at work.

“They just said she was on the ambulance,” said Daniel. “We don’t watch the news during the day. Then, we find out what happened when we got to our daughter.”

Once at the hospital, he said they realized the metro was watching an hours-long manhunt unfold.

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Daniel said his daughter was at the front desk working at Northside Medical when police say Deion Patterson started shooting Wednesday afternoon.

“My daughter was just there to feed her family, just there working,” said Daniel.

Jazzmin Daniel, Alesha Hollinger, Lisa Glynn and Georgette Whitlow are the survivors. Amy St. Pierre died. Her family said the mother of two was a patient in the waiting room during the rampage.

In a statement, her family wrote:

“Our beloved Amy was brilliant, kind, big-hearted and simply the ‘best of the best’. An Emory honors graduate and Georgia State MBA, Amy traveled the world with curiosity and courage. She was driven by compassion, both in her work in the field of maternal mortality, and in her everyday life. Amy was selfless always, she wanted more for others but never for herself. Generous supporter of worthy causes, she was the social conscience of our family.”

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Daniel described seeing other family members of survivors in Grady Hospital waiting rooms.

“You got a lot of people down here that’s going through it right now,” said Daniel.

He said his daughter has a one-year-old at home who is suffering without his mother.

As for he and his wife, “We holding up pretty well. We didn’t sleep last night. We haven’t had an appetite just yet. We just worried about our daughter,” said Daniel.

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