A Texas mother who took her daughter out of school only minutes before gunman Salvador Ramos shot and killed 19 children and two teachers has spoken out.
Mia said she was left feeling guilty after her daughter Evalynn’s best friend was killed on Tuesday when Ramos stormed Robb Elementary School.
Speaking to the New York Post, the mother said: “There is so much guilt right now. My heart goes out to all of the families who are suffering… And now we have 11 funerals to attend.”
Mia said that her daughter and her best friend, Layla Salavar, 10, had been planning a sleepover.
“I can’t eat, couldn’t think because of the overwhelming amount of guilt,” she expressed.
“I was able to take my daughter out, but what could’ve happened if we were there just five minutes later?”
One of the students described the traumatizing moment the gunman stormed in and how she covered herself in her friend’s blood to make the shooter believe that she was shot.
11-year-old Miah Cerrillo said that her class was watching the Disney film Lilo and Stitch as it was already the end of the school year when her teacher received a message about an active shooter.
However, the teacher received the email too late and by the time she managed to lock the door, the 18-year-old gunman was already there.
Miah said that Ramos started to open fire and she was hit with bullet fragments on her neck and back. Ramos then went to the connected classroom and continued to shoot students.
The young girl also said that Ramos played ‘sad’ music that she described as the kind of music someone plays when ‘you want people to die.’
Her aunt Blanca Rivera told Click 2 Houston: “At this point, we just have to pray and ask God to help us move forward through this situation. I know it’s traumatizing and having an 11-year-old go through this, I can’t imagine what she’s feeling.”
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