The more I hear about what happened Sunday morning at the Sutherland Springs church, the more my heart aches.
What happened that morning was an act of pure evil.
The survivors are beginning to recount the events… and it’s worse than I could ever imagine.
I’m warning you know… this is haunting. It’s your choice to keep reading, but we warned it’s absolutely awful.
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— Good Morning America (@GMA) November 7, 2017
Survivors are speaking out to detail their horrifying memories of Sunday’s Texas church shooting.
Rosa Solis was shot in the arm during the massacre at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, and survived by hiding under a bench and playing dead.
She was discharged from the hospital late Monday after being treated for a gunshot wound to her left arm. She spoke out to ABC News from her home after to detail the killer’s chilling only words.
As Devin Patrick Kelley walked up and down the church’s center aisle, shooting at the scores of parishioners, Solis says he yelled ‘Everybody dies motherf*****!’
Absolutely horrific.
Solis survived by playing dead.
Solis says the only other sound was of ‘people screaming and people crying’ and children yelling for their mothers.
She didn’t dare move to aid any of the other victims.
‘I saw bodies with a lot of blood. That’s all I saw because I wasn’t about to get out from where I was hiding.
‘I played dead. I made sure I hid myself good under that bench,’ she said.
David Brown, whose mother Farida was shot in the shooting and continues to recover at the hospital, says she told him that the killer walked up and down the aisle about 10 to 15 times.
Brown believes his mother survived thanks to her cellphone, which acted as a bulletproof vest of sorts, catching many of the bullets.
‘She just laid on the floor,’ he told GMA. ‘The shooter was shooting everybody. I guess he could see everybody trying to run. And then after no one was moving they were just laying on the floor, he walked up and down all the aisles shooting everyone as they laid on the floor, she said.’
The massacre finally came to the end when local resident Stephen Willeford ran to the church with his own gun.
I cannot imagine the horror these people must have felt.
My prayers go out to them and their families.
This is absolutely unthinkable.