[h=1]‘Mommy, I’m okay but all my friends are dead’[/h] December 18 2012
By Daily Mail
AFP
A handwritten sign reads 'Pray for Newtown' following the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
Newtown - A six-year-old girl became the only member of her class to survive the carnage by playing dead.
After gunman Adam Lanza burst into the school and began to pick off her classmates, the terrified girl lay on the floor with the bodies of her friends and pretended she had been killed too. She kept her eyes and mouth clamped shut until Lanza left her classroom.
“She ran out of the school building covered from head to toe with blood and the first thing she said to her mom was ‘Mommy, I’m okay but all my friends are dead’,” the girl’s pastor Jim Solomon revealed on Monday.
He said her family had asked for her identity to remain a secret to help her recover from the ordeal.
“Somehow, in that moment, by God’s grace, she was able to act as she was already deceased,” he said, adding that she described the killer to her mother. “She saw someone who she felt was angry and someone she felt was very mad,” he said.
“The mom told me that she was suffering from what she felt was survivor’s guilt because so many of her friends no longer have their children but she has hers,” the pastor told ABC News.
“I don’t know that I would have the type of faith that they have if the same thing happened to me.” - Daily Mail
By Daily Mail
A handwritten sign reads 'Pray for Newtown' following the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
Newtown - A six-year-old girl became the only member of her class to survive the carnage by playing dead.
After gunman Adam Lanza burst into the school and began to pick off her classmates, the terrified girl lay on the floor with the bodies of her friends and pretended she had been killed too. She kept her eyes and mouth clamped shut until Lanza left her classroom.
“She ran out of the school building covered from head to toe with blood and the first thing she said to her mom was ‘Mommy, I’m okay but all my friends are dead’,” the girl’s pastor Jim Solomon revealed on Monday.
He said her family had asked for her identity to remain a secret to help her recover from the ordeal.
“Somehow, in that moment, by God’s grace, she was able to act as she was already deceased,” he said, adding that she described the killer to her mother. “She saw someone who she felt was angry and someone she felt was very mad,” he said.
“The mom told me that she was suffering from what she felt was survivor’s guilt because so many of her friends no longer have their children but she has hers,” the pastor told ABC News.
“I don’t know that I would have the type of faith that they have if the same thing happened to me.” - Daily Mail
