Texas school shooting: Uvalde pastor details encounter with gunman, says ‘I saw it all’

A church pastor who was one of many first to be fired at by Uvalde, Texas, school shooter Salvador Ramos is now talking out about his harrowing expertise. 

Gilbert Limones, who works as a Hillcrest Memorial Funeral Home attendant and preaches at Casa El Shaddai, a small church positioned lower than a mile from Robb Elementary, has spent most of his days because the May 24 bloodbath serving to put together for the younger victims’ burials and consoling shattered households. 

“Church, you are armed by this,” he stated Sunday, holding up a Bible throughout his first sermon following the taking pictures that left 19 college students and two lecturers useless. 

“When tragedies happen, all the enemy needs is a willing vessel,” Limones additionally advised his congregation of about 35, assembly in an previous restaurant transformed right into a worship house.

Pastor Gilbert Limones, one of many first targets of a gunman who killed 21 folks at an elementary school, speaks throughout an interview on the church he preaches at in Uvalde, Texas, on Sunday, June 5.
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Limones stated he recollects listening to somebody yell a few weapon after which turning, solely to listen to the “pop, pop, pop” of gunfire behind him. The shooter was inside about 150 toes of him however missed someway, Limones stated. 

Limones stated he acquired away rapidly, cringing at each shot, and referred to as police as quickly as he might. “I was screaming, screaming at 911,” he stated. 

But Ramos turned the gun on the school’s exterior after which entered the constructing by means of a door that authorities say didn’t lock when a trainer pulled it shut.  

“I saw it all,” stated Limones. 

Matthew Solano leaves sunflowers at a memorial to honor the victims killed within the elementary school taking pictures in Uvalde, Texas, on Wednesday, June 1.
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Despite his brush with the killer, Limones went again to his job on the family-owned funeral dwelling, which is small and was rapidly overwhelmed. 

In his sermon, Limones stated he believes the victims are in a greater place, and he recounted the a whole bunch of people that have come to city with donations of meals, water, prayers and extra. Uvalde, he stated, “is surrounded by love.” 

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Crosses bearing the names of the victims killed within the Uvalde, Texas, school taking pictures are seen by means of a balloon at a memorial at Robb Elementary School on Wednesday, June 1.
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While townspeople are hurting badly proper now and searching for solutions, he stated, they should come collectively. God’s justice will finally prevail. 

“You don’t think that the shooter is having to speak to Our Father about what he did?” Limones stated. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.