abc news reporter victor okendo has the story. >> we just called me and say, dad, somebody shoot me in>> reporter: it's the phone call no parent expects to receive. roger burgess's son anthony telling him he'd been shot multiple times at school. >> he was shot four times? >> four times. one in here, one in here, another one -- another one here and he get two on this. >> reporter: but the 15-year-old wasn't going down without a fight. his father tells us anthony saw the gunman coming, shutting the classroom door, pressing his body weight against it, while being shot, protecting the students inside the classroom, all of them making it out alive. >> he's my -- his close friend d beaming with pride as well. >> none of us knew what to do. he took the initiative to save his classmates. >> reporter: the freshman is now in stable condition, but with his harrowing story of survival comes 17 others with heartbreaking endings. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: that song and these black arm bands in honor of this soccer team's fallen player. >> i just have to take all the great things that she did and gave to all