In a remarkable turn of events, one little girl is believed to be the only survivor of a class that Adam Lanza, 20, killed on Friday Dec. 14. She played dead, laying amongst the corpses of her friends, and fooled the gunman.
Adam Lanza, 20, opened fire on Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, killing 26 people. One 6-year-old girl, however, managed to escape her classroom after all her friends were shot and killed.
The unidentified girl played dead while her friends were killed around her by Adam. Her story was revealed after her mother attended grief counseling with a local pastor Jim Solomon.
The little girl allegedly waited until it seemed safe again and was the first child to run out of the school, embracing her mother as she was covered in blood — from head to toe.
When the girl reached her mom, she said, “Mommy, I’m okay, but all my friends are dead.”
Adam killed 20 children in the school after killing his mother, Nancy Lanza, earlier that morning. He also killed 6 adults at the school that day before taking his own life with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
Jim passed the little girl’s story on to ABC News.
Connecticut Shooting Victims List:
CHILDREN:
Charlotte Bacon, 6
Daniel Barden, 7
Olivia Engel, 6
Josephine Gay, 7
Ana Marquez-Greene, 6
Dylan Hockley, 6
Madeleine Hsu, 6
Catherine Hubbard, 6
Chase Kowalski, 7
Jesse Lewis, 6
James Mattioli, 6
Grace McDonnell, 7
Emilie Parker, 6
Jack Pinto, 6
Noah Pozner, 6
Caroline Previdi, 6
Jessica Rekos, 6
Avielle Richman, 6
Benjamin Wheeler, 6
Allison N. Wyatt, 6
ADULTS:
Rachel Davino, 29
Dawn Hochsprung, 47
Anne Marie Murphy, 52
Lauren Russeau, 20
Mary Sherlach, 56
Victoria Soto, 27
What do YOU think, HollywoodLifers? Are you surprised that a 6-year-old knew to play dead?
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Lesley
Posted at 3:48 PM on December 18, 2012
Wow – wow. For a child to think of that kind of plan during all that going on, brave. I can’t believe a child that young could think of that, it saved her life. But my hearts breaks for the horrible memory that will replay in her mind for the rest of her life. I hope she gets grief counseling.