The trauma left by the elementary school massacre continues in TexasAs anger and sadness clouded the entire country, new information and shocking facts about what happened on that fateful day surfaced.
Survivor’s father reported from the massacre They quote his 11-year-old daughter, what she did to save herself from certain death.
Her friend died in front of her
The child, Mia Cirillo, explained to her father that when she saw her friend shot and that her turn was inevitably coming, she used the blood of her friend, who was still breathing, and smeared her body with it, then played the role of a corpse without a soul until the killer illusion that she died and he went away from her.
She added that her friend was fatally shot in front of her eyes in the fourth grade class last Tuesday, explaining that she tried to call the emergency number from the phone of her teacher, who was also killed, to get help, but it did not work, which made her resort to playing the role of the dead man.
The girl’s family also reported that their daughter had indeed escaped death, but had become in an unspeakable ordeal due to the shock.
Unexplained panic attacks
She indicated that Mia today suffers from night terrors, according to a report by the American “News Week” website.
After the accident, Mia was taken to the hospital to treat her injuries, and then she was released.
While Mia, according to her father and aunt, spent that night in a state of panic, she asked her father to arm himself and said, “The gunman will come to take us.”
Mia is one of 5 children in her family. Her younger sister is a second grader at Robb Elementary School and was not harmed in the shooting.
Family members of one of the victims killed in the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Texas (Associated Press)
horrific massacre
The perpetrator of Tuesday’s massacre, Salvador Ramos, an 18-year-old teenager who bought two AR-15 assault rifles and bragged about them on social media, hinted that he would commit atrocities before carrying out the deadly attack, in which he was also killed after a confrontation with Police men.
Most of the children killed were between 10 and 11 years old, as they were killed in a single classroom of fourth graders just days before the start of summer vacation, becoming one of the deadliest incidents in American school history, since the Sandy Hook school shooting in 2012.