She was hospitalized with bullet fragments in her back, but has since been released, Rivera said. Other students in the classroom shared similarly horrifying stories.Įleven-year-old Miah Cerillo survived by smearing her friend's blood on herself and playing dead, her aunt, Blanca Rivera, told NBC News. “They went in front of my classmates to help. “They were nice teachers,” he said of Garcia and Mireles. The boy, his best friend and three other students hid beneath a table with a tablecloth and were able to survive as his teachers and many of his classmates were killed. “When I heard the shooting through the door, I told my friend to hide under something so he won’t find us,” said the boy, who was not identified.
“I’m just so thankful that I was able to bring my baby home and tuck her in and be with her.”Īnother student, a fourth-grader who was inside the classroom where the gunman opened fire, told San Antonio TV station KENS that the shooter came into the room and said, “It’s time to die.” Though her focus is on her daughter’s well-being, Gonzales added that the circumstances had been incredibly difficult to handle as a parent. “I can just imagine the fear of hearing her yell, ‘Help!’ Help!’” Gonzales said, fighting back tears. Her teacher couldn’t unlock the door due to lockdown protocols, she said, and Aubree doesn’t know what happened to the woman or whether she was one of the teachers who was killed. I put her to bed last night and she told me she felt like somebody was looking at her - she’s just really shaken up by it.”Īubree told her mother that during the shooting, a woman was banging on her classroom door and “begging for the teacher to let her in.”
She’s scared to even watch a movie in the living room by herself. She’s scared to take a shower by herself. “She’s terrified to go anywhere without me and her dad,” she said. Gonzales said Aubree was still traumatized by what happened. "It's just really hard to cope with everything that's going on," said Amber Gonzales, whose 8-year-old daughter, Aubree, hid under her desk in another classroom while the shooting occurred.