As soon as teacher Nicole Ogburn heard a burst of gunshots, she asked her students to remain calm, to lie down and not to make a noise for anything in the world, instructions that possibly helped gunman Salvador Ramos avoid going through that classroom.
In an interview with TODAY, the teacher said that seconds before the bullets shattered the windows of her classroom, her students were already on the floor: “I kept hearing boom boom boom It kept ringing, and it felt like forever.”
He also said that when he found out: “He had a student lying on top of me, and I had a bunch of other students right here next to me, and we were all holding hands. I only remember praying: ‘Please, God, please keep us safe. dan to the street: “I stayed and kept taking the kids out, and then me and the last two kids jumped out the window, and we just ran. They told us: ‘Run, run, run’”
Like other teachers, Nicole Ogburn still cannot erase the image of Salvador with a gun in his hand walking towards the Primary School, but she knows that it has to be strong.
“ I can close my eyes and see that image of him with a gun walking to my school, and it haunts me, but at the same time, I’ve told myself I won’t live in fear. I want to do that and teach it to my own children. You cannot live in fear”, he said.
After the massacre, Ogburn has announced that he has received several messages from the parents of his students who thank him for having safeguarded the minors and even there are those who call her a “heroine”.
“I am not a hero in any way. But I love those kids so much,” she expressed.
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