“I’m playing dead,” was what the teacher at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Elsa Ávila, told her students after Salvador Ramos shot her after she locked her classroom class.
According to Daniel Garza, 9, when his teacher realized that a shooting was taking place inside the school, she ran to lock her classroom , but the attacker realized his actions and shot her, which left her badly injured, but alive.
In an interview with ABC NEWS, Daniel Garza recalled that his teacher was shot through the glass and fell to the ground, but discreetly told her students that she was playing dead and that everyone should keep quiet.
According to the minor, his teacher was not the only one who was injured due to the shots, but a classmate, but he also kept silent to avoid being heard.
Garza said that he and another group of colleagues hid under a table, next to a wall and for several minutes they remained silent , listening to the shots, the screams and the crying of his classmates in the next room.
“I personally cannot thank my son’s teacher enough,” said the child’s mother, Brian Ruiz. And she added: “I think what she did saved everyone’s life.”