The explosions that shook Boston on Monday stopped DeKalb resident David Kuhn in his tracks, but he is not willing to give up his love of running.

Two bombs were detonated Monday near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. No arrests have been made in conjunction with the bombings. Three people have been reported dead, and about 180 have been injured.

Kuhn ran the marathon blind.

He was blinded in a car accident in 1981. He qualified and participated in the Boston Marathon on the Massachusetts Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired’s (MAB Community) Team With a Vision.

Kuhn was three miles away from the site of the explosions. He ran with two sighted guides who described to Kuhn what was happening.

“There were a bunch of runners who had stopped dead in the road, and they were checking their cellphones,” Kuhn said. “I even made the comment of, ‘How’s looking at your cell phone going to help you get to the finish line?’”

Cynthia Canham, director of development for MAB Community, was watching from the sidelines when she received several phone calls describing what happened.

“We really had very little information except that they were reporting that there were two explosions down at the finish line,” Canham said.

Canham caught up with and stopped Kuhn and his guide runners near the 40-kilometer marker. She told them what happened and said they would not be able to finish.

“My first thoughts were, ‘What are you talking about? Why are you saying these things?’ It was hard for me to wrap my mind around it,” Kuhn said.

Kuhn said that one of his guide runners, Bryon Guida, said he heard what sounded like a cannon going off.

“Before we got to the 40 kilometer mat, a bunch of emergency vehicles came flying by on the very street we were running on, and they were not slowing down for anybody,” Kuhn said. “We could hear helicopters and sirens ahead of us.”

After the realization of what had occurred, Kuhn and one of his guide runners, Joslynn Lee, decided to cross the nearest kilometer marker so friends and family could determine where he was. Kuhn said he had friends and family monitoring his run time.

“Everybody was just stopping and walking off the course,” Kuhn said.

Kuhn and his guide runners left the course and went to the MAB Community building.

“There was a lot of confusion,” Kuhn said. “No one was exactly sure what was happening.”

Kuhn said he heard police officers on loud speakers telling people to go home.

Joshua Warren, MAB Community team coordinator, was a block-and-a-half from the site of the explosions. Warren and other volunteers were monitoring bags and personal items that belonged to the runners.

“We heard it, and everybody sort of paused and looked in that general direction,” Warren said. “Within seconds, everybody looked to one another for reassurance, then at that point the second blast occurred. It was unlike anything any of us had ever heard; it was deep, it was loud, it was booming. It clearly wasn’t thunder.”

Warren and volunteers waited for about an hour. It wasn’t until Warren heard what he thought was a third explosion that they proceeded to carry the runners’ belongings across the city to a hotel room that was waiting for the team. Warren went through the team roster determining who was safe and accounted for.

“Going through a list of people who you built relationships with over the year and putting question marks next to some names and safe next to others is a horrible, horrible experience,” Warren said.

Team With a Vision consisted of 41 runners, none of whom were injured. It took four and a half hours to determine that each runner on Team With a Vision was accounted for.

Canham and Warren said runners will not be deterred from coming back next year.

“I refuse to give into this. I love running too much,” Kuhn said.