HIGHLAND Park, Ill. – Natalie Lorentz flung herself onto her three small children as a couple to her right were fatally shot and a woman to her left was grazed by a bullet.

When the gunman stopped to reload, Lorentz and her husband grabbed their kids and fled. She told her children – ages 5, 3 and almost 2 – that they had to run because the fireworks got out of control.