When Neil Gray dropped his wife, Amanda, off on 21st Street Tuesday morning, they exchanged a kiss and a goodbye before she headed to class at the University of Texas.

But not 20 seconds after she shut the car door, they both saw a man wearing a suit, tie and ski mask, clutching onto a weapon.

"He was holding the gun with one hand, and flailing it from side to side," Neil said.

Neil said Colton Tooley, 19, sprayed rounds with an AK-47 in a, “a reckless fashion,” aiming at no one.

Neil said he could only crouch in his car to avoid being seen while his wife Amanda dove behind nearby trash cans.

"If he looked at me and wanted to shoot me, there was nowhere I could go," Neil said.

"[The gunman] was just right across the street and my husband was just up the street, and I didn't know if he was okay. So as soon as he passed me, I just ran up hoping he was fine. Then, we got away as fast as we could from there," Amanda said.

They saw him run away, but didn't know where he'd end up. The two decided to rush to Guadalupe, stop drivers and caution them from coming on-campus.

"People were driving south down Guadalupe and turning onto campus by the carload and busload, and so it seemed to make the most sense to turn them around and at least let them know what they were getting into," Neil said.

Tuesday night, police were seen searching with shovels and flashlights in the same area where the Grays drove so close to danger just hours before.

"We joke that we need to buy lottery tickets because today's our lucky day, that we were so close to someone just randomly shooting a gun and we're still alive," Amanda said.