"I heard three loud explosions followed by gunfire," he said.
"I heard three pops," said Lydia Boris, who lives nearby.
"I heard three or four shots," he said.
GEORGE PACKER: I heard three themes repeated most often: income inequality, corporate greed, money in politics.
"I heard three shots," said the neighbor, who would give her name only as Joan.
"I heard three loud bangs," she said, "and a few seconds later my husband yelled that a plane had crashed.
On the subway this morning, I heard three concurring views, two unprintable; the printable one cast Isiah as a "fool" and a "jackass".
"I was shopping when I heard three shots, then we ran out and about 40 seconds later we heard five shots from outside," said Florian Horn, 33.
"I heard three notes of that tune, and I said, 'That's the kind of music I'm going to dedicate my life to,'" she said.
When I heard three days later that he was missing, I called the police; I did the things one should do, but it didn't seem like enough.
From an interview with Franny Armstrong in Camden New Journal: "I was minding my own business, sending a text, when I heard three boys shouting swear words".
