Two survivors of the Capital Gazette shooting recounted Sunday their frantic efforts to hide as a crazed gunman stalked their offices.

Education and US Naval Academy beat reporter Rachael Pacella and police reporter Phil Davis were among the 11 staffers inside the Annapolis newspaper when suspected shooter Jarrod Ramos opened fire with a pump-action shotgun Thursday. The pair were two of the six people who made it out alive.

“I heard a gunshot. Glass shattered. I kind of recognized immediately [the situation], and I ducked under my desk. But after a little bit, I heard more shots, and I realized that under the desk was not a safe place to be,” Pacella told CNN’s Reliable Sources.

She made a break for a door but lost her footing.

“I think I tripped — I’m pretty sure I tripped, I might have just run straight into the door frame to be honest — but I hit my head really hard against the door frame,” she said, sporting a bruise under her right eye and a cut between her eyebrows.

“I was bleeding, and then obviously when I did try the door handle to get out, it was barricaded, so I sort of hopped over in between some filing cabinets, and I hid there. One of the other things I said was just ‘What could we have done to make people hate us so much? Why do people hate the media? What could we have done to deserve this?’ ”

Meanwhile, Davis ducked under his desk and did what police reporters do — he started talking with the local police department’s public information officer.

“As I was hiding under my desk, I had my work phone on me, and I just happened to have a text exchange with Sgt. Amy Miguez — the spokeswoman for the Annapolis Police Department — that was already open because I think I was texting her about something else, or I was about to before it happened,” he told CNN.

“So I started to text her as quickly as I could what was happening. And then, once she grasped it, she said she had called 911 and told me to stay as low as I could.”

Ramos, 38, had been on a warpath against the paper since 2012, when it published a story about him pleading guilty to harassing a woman. He tried but failed several times to sue the paper and staffers for defamation, according to reports. He posted threatening messages to social media as recently as Thursday, officials said.

“That was 2012, and neither of us were here then, so [it was] never on our minds,” Davis said of himself and Pacella.

The individuals named in the suits had left the paper by the time Ramos allegedly killed five people, although three of those killed had been at the paper since at least 2012, according to reports.