Schoolchildren, teachers and family members offer graphic details of day gunman killed 19 children and two adults
producer her fourth-grade class was watching Disney’s Lilo & Stitch when the gunman entered the classroom and made eye contact with her teacher and shot her dead, as well as some of her other classmates.
Miah smeared her friend’s blood all over her body to make it look like she was dead in case the gunman returned from the adjoining classroom. She escaped alive, but was wounded.immediately ran to lock her classroom door when she heard gunshots down the hall. She said her students had practiced active shooter drills for years.
She said: “They knew this wasn’t a drill. We knew we had to be quiet or else we were going to give ourselves away.” The teacher called the ordeal the longest 35 minutes of her life. Paramedic Angel Garza arrived on the scene at Robb elementary and learned his stepdaughter, Amerie Jo, was among the dead. He learned the news from Amerie’s best friend, who told him the blood in which she was covered belonged to his stepdaughter.
Samuel Salinas, 10, ended up with bullet fragments in his leg after the gunman entered his classroom and fired multiple rounds. SamuelEdward Timothy, a second-grader at Robb elementary described the shooting soundas “popping … kind of like fireworks”. He recalled an adult woman entering his classroom, turning off the lights and telling the children to hide under their desks. He said: “I learned that we were having a real drill. We practiced a lot. We were safe because we practiced.
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