Heroic teacher recounts hellish school shooting
The 15 first graders cowered in a dark, barricaded bathroom as gunfire boomed outside, shot after shot after shot killing their classmates and teachers.
Terrified as they were, their teacher played loving mother hen, even as she feared they — ages 6 and 7 — and she were next and would die any minute.
Sandy Hook Elementary School teacher Kaitlin Roig cried, sniffled and fidgeted as she recounted her harrowing and heartbreaking chapter of the Connecticut school shooting to ABC News.
When gunfire rang out, she gathered her kids together — their classroom had a big, exposed and thus dangerous window — and rushed them into the small bathroom.
She pulled a bookcase across the doorway, closed the door and locked it from the inside.
Hush, she told the kids.
“I told them to be quiet. I told them to be absolutely quiet,” Roig said.
In a nightmarish silence, they heard the gunfire in the hallway just a few yards away.
“I said there are bad guys out there now and we have to wait for the good guys,” Roig said.
Kids would cry. Ask for their parents. They just wanted to go home and for it to be Christmas, Roig
