A 9-year-old student at Uvalde’s Robb Elementary School has described how he climbed through a broken window to escape last week’s mass shooting that left 21 dead.
Daniel Ruiz, sitting next to his mother, Briana Ruiz, said during an interview with CNN that the 18-year-old gunman fired “like four bullets” into his classroom, hitting his teacher and a classmate.
The gunman, Salvador Ramos, had also attempted to enter Ruiz’s classroom, but the door had been locked by his teacher, who also broke off the key before getting shot in her leg and torso.
Daniel explained that he and some of his classmates were “hiding under a table next to the wall” shortly after hearing the first two gunshots. He also recalled seeing Ramos through the door’s window….