San Bernardino shooting victims recount terrifying events

More chilling details are being revealed Thursday from survivors inside the social services center when gunshots rang out.

Within the past 24 hours things have changed drastically.

Not only were media allowed to move closer to the Inland Regional Center, but victims are giving a glimpse into what some of them went through when they were trapped in nearby buildings.

Some saying they saw things no one should ever see.

Timmy Hilliard, one of the many trapped inside buildings on the IRC campus, was able to take a video while barricaded inside.

“I was in building two, next to building three, and I was on the third floor and pulled out my phone, took a couple stills. I saw some of the deceased, one male on a bench and a female a few feet over. My instinct was to get my camera to video and record everything I can, ” Hilliard said.

He said so many emotions ran through his mind.

“Mayhem, pandemonium, stress, everything you can imagine without trying to imagine. Fear for life and colleagues,” Hilliard said.

He says he’s exhausted and still in shock this happened in his back yard.

“Crazy to know that the video I shot has an impact and aspects of it, first hand, of the mayhem. Knowing this is the biggest devastation since Sandy Hook and maybe the biggest in California the last 20 years, and it’s where I work, and it’s where I am, so it’s pretty intense,” Hilliard said.

Across town at the home of Syed Farook, hazmat teams still working to clear the home of any potential threats.

Minister Brown lives in Redlands and came out to see Farook’s home.

“For this to happen, I wish it would have never happened, but you never know what’s in your back door,” Brown said.

His wife works at the Lighthouse, a center for the blind near the IRC campus. She was one of the many trapped inside.

“They all got together and prayed. That’s all they could do. Being blind is scary. I used to be a volunteer there, and I’m still involved with them, and they’re a good group of people,” Brown said.

In the wake of this tragedy, there’s a number of questions that need to be answered.

The most important of them all, why?

“We won’t know why. We never will until the news media give us that information,” Brown said.