Since police rescued him by breaking out the classroom windows and having him crawl through glass to safety, Daniel has been awakened by nightmares. He refuses to play to his beloved video games and mostly stays quiet.
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“We just ran to get to cover,” Daniel said. “And [the teacher] grabbed the key, and it broke and just jammed” in the door.Initially, Daniel said he could hear the gunman firing on another classroom at the end of a hallway. Ruiz said there are about eight classrooms in that wing of the school, but several were probably unoccupied because students were at lunch or in gym class.
“He then shot like two or three bullets, and then the glass broke, but like a bullet hit the wall, and bounced off and tried to hit us, but it hit her nose,” Daniel said. “He then shot like two more bullets, and then he stopped and then went back to the classroom next to us.”On Wednesday, Texas law enforcement officials said it took about an hour for police officers to find and shoot the gunman and rescue the students. Daniel believes it took about 2 hours for his classroom to be evacuated.
As she stood outside the school, Ruiz and other parents were confused as to why police officers at the scene were not entering the building to confront the gunman. She watched panicked fathers attempt to tear down a fence to enter the school to rescue their children. Ruiz and other mothers started screaming at anyone they could find, demanding answers about what was going on inside the school.
“We could hear a cop telling him to come out and stuff,” Daniel said. “We heard the cop say put your handgun down, and put the rest of your guns down, and come out of the classroom.”
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