An 11-year-old girl tells CNN how she smeared herself with the blood of a killed classmate to hide from the school shooter in Uvalde.
The girl was in one of the classrooms that the shooter entered and witnessed how her teacher and several classmates were shot dead. She herself suffered shrapnel injuries.
The girl has described to CNN journalist Nora Neus how she saw her two teachers and several classmates shot to death.
– She says that he (the shooter) said goodnight before he shot the first teacher, says Nora Neus.
The perpetrator then went on to an adjoining classroom and the girl says that she heard children screaming and firing from there.
– And then she says that she heard music, that it sounded like the shooter put it on. She describes it as sad music, says Neus.
Called the emergency service
A total of 19 children and two adults were killed by the armed 18-year-old inside the school in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday. The shooter was killed in turn by the police.
The girl says that she was afraid that the shooter would come back to the classroom where she was. Therefore, she must have taken blood from a killed classmate and smeared herself in to fool the shooter that she was dead if he returned.
The 11-year-old further says that she and a friend managed to get hold of one of the killed teachers’ phones and called the emergency service.
– She says that she had repeatedly said “please come, we are bad out” to the alarm center, says Neus.
Hoping for change
The girl survived, but was injured by splinters on her back and in the back of her head. However, she is severely traumatized and only wanted to talk to a female journalist as the incident has made her afraid of men. According to CNN, however, she wanted to tell about the horror inside the classroom.
– She said that she wants to help so that no one else needs to experience what she has been through. That if she gives an interview, people will know what it really is like to be part of a school shooting and that it may lead to some kind of change, says Nora Neus.