Jake Johnson Says His Mother's 'Gut Feeling' Saved Him from 1988 School Shooting

"New Girl" actor Jake Johnson says his mother's intuition saved him from a school shooting in 1988.

“I was sitting next to my mom, I was in fourth grade,”Johnson said on Dope as Usual earlier this week. “Out of nowhere, my mother turns to me and goes, ‘You’re not going to school tomorrow.’”

“The next day — May 20, 1988 — a woman walks into my elementary school through the door that my class was in,” he recalled. “A woman walked into the school wearing a robe and nothing underneath. … The room was empty, she walked through, walked down the hall, walked into another room, shot seven kids, killed one of them. True story.”

The incident occurred in Winnetka, Illinois. According to a report by ABC 7 Chicago, Laurie Dann, who was known to struggle with mental illness, entered a second-grade classroom, asserting that she was there to educate the students about guns. Subsequently, she opened fire on the class. On the same day, Dann also tried to set fire to another school and the residence of the family for whom she had been babysitting.

He said that he and his mother rarely talk about the incident, and added, “My mom cannot explain why she did not want me to go to school.”

Always trust a mother's intuition!