“When I heard the shooting through the door, I told my friend to hide under something so he won’t find us. I was hiding hard,' the fourth-grade boy said.
in Uvalde, Texas, says he witnessed the gunman’s cold-blooded attack on children as he hid underneath a table waiting for help to arrive.
“When I heard the shooting through the door, I told my friend to hide under something so he won’t find us. I was hiding hard. And I was telling my friend to not talk because he is going to hear us,” the boy said. But he said one person in the classroom was targeted after responding to a police officer who had arrived at the scene.
Some parents who had rushed to the school after the first alert went out about an “active shooter” on campus took matters into their own hands, breaking windows and trying to pull children to safety.he’d watched as a police officer carried her out covered in blood.He said she watched as the gunman killed her teacher, Eva Mireles, who’d been clutching a phone when she was struck. Miah took the phone and called 911, and then played dead in a desperate bid to prevent herself from becoming a target.
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