Teacher survived Texas school shooting by playing dead for over an hour

A instructor who was shot by the deranged gunman who killed 19 college students and two lecturers at a Texas elementary college stated he performed useless for over an hour so as to survive the bloodbath.

Arnulfo Reyes spoke in regards to the harrowing ordeal in an interview with ABC Information and provided one of many extra detailed accounts of the horror inside Robb Elementary College on Could 24 that ended with 11 of his college students useless.

Reyes advised the community that his class was watching a film when 18-year-old gunman Salvador Ramos barged inside their room.

“The children began asking out loud, ‘Mr. Reyes, what’s going on,’ and I stated, ‘I don’t know what’s occurring however let’s go forward and get below the desk … get below the desk and act such as you’re asleep,’” Reyes stated within the interview.

As Reyes and the youngsters have been huddling below the desk, the 17-year veteran instructor stated he rotated and noticed Ramos open hearth within the classroom.

One bullet hit Reyes’ arm and his lung. The second bullet hit his again.

“One of many college students from the next-door classroom was saying, ‘Officer, we’re in right here. We’re in right here,’” however they’d already left,” Reyes stated.

Reyes stated he performed useless for an hour and 17 minutes however may hear Ramos going from his classroom to the adjoining classroom to proceed his rampage.

Regulation enforcement officers got here again a second time and at last breached the door of the Ramos’ classroom earlier than fatally taking pictures the gunman.

By then, Reyes’ 11 college students have been useless.

Reyes is presently recovering at Brooke Military Medical Middle in San Antonio.

Responding legislation enforcement in Uvalde has confronted heavy scrutiny over their delayed response in taking down the shooter.

The varsity district chief of police Pete Arredondo wasn’t carrying a radio that day and in addition handled the incident as a suspect barricade scenario versus an lively shooter scenario.