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A survivor of the Texas church massacre
described how she played dead to avoid being shot — as her husband
revealed that the sicko killer shot babies as punishment for crying. “There was nowhere to go,” survivor Rosanne Solis told ABC News.
“I played dead, and I made sure that I hid myself good underneath that
bench. I saw bodies with a lot of blood — that’s all I saw because I
wasn’t about to get out from where I was hiding.” “I shouldn’t have gone to church that day,” she thought as she huddled under the pew. The congregation in Sutherland Springs had just finished
singing a worship song when bullets came tearing in at them from
outside. “Someone said, ‘Get down, someone’s shooting at us!’ ” Solis
told The Post. “Everybody went down, started screaming all over the
place.” The loud pops of gunfire briefly stopped — until Kelley, dressed in black body armor and wearing a skull mask, entered the church and began picking off his victims row by row. “He came inside the church to finish everybody off. He didn’t want anyone alive,” Solis said. Kelley,
who had recently attended a fall festival at the chapel, attacked
church singers first — and intentionally shot babies and kids who
started crying, Solis’ boyfriend, Joaquin Ramirez said. “The kids that were crying were shot,” he said. Ramirez held a finger to his lips to silence 14-year-old
victim Annabelle Pomeroy — the pastor’s daughter and one of 26 killed in
the massacre — as she cried for help, knowing Kelley would target her
for making noise. “My boyfriend saw him shoot the pastor’s daughter,” said
Solis, who started attending the church eight months ago. “When he was
going row to row, he shot her three times.” A man sitting behind the stricken teenager tried to make a run for it amid the chaos but he, too, was shot dead. “Some guys tried to run away, [and] he shot them,” Solis said. “That guy was dead because he tried to run.” Farida Brown, 73, watched as Kelley murdered the woman next
to her, firing four bullets into her body — and figured she was his next
target.
Rosanna Solis G.N.Miller“She only saw the guy’s boots walking around everywhere, and
heard him go row to row shooting people that were down on the ground
for safety and cover,” Brown’s son, David, told KENS TV. “The shooter was making his rounds and he ended up there and started shooting this lady multiple times. “And the lady looked at my mom the whole time and my mom was
looking at her, telling her, ‘It’s OK, you’re going to go to heaven.’ ” Brown began praying, certain she wouldn’t make it out of the church alive — until rifle-toting plumber Stephen Willeford began firing at Kelley from outside the church. “Somebody with a gun was at the door, so [Kelley] turned his
focus off of her and went to deal with the guy with the gun at the
door,” David said. When the gunfire finally ended, dozens of victims lay bloody on the floor. “I saw a girl in front of me — they shot her in the back,”
Solis said. “I could see all the blood coming out of her pants. I never
want to think about it again. It looked horrible.” Solis, who now plans to worship from home, said she had seen
Kelley at church about six months ago hugging his wife, who sometimes
attended services there. Kelley had also gone to a fall festival at the chapel with his family just five days before his massacre, the Houston Chronicle reported. A friend of Kelley’s mother-in-law, Michelle Shields, said
fellow churchgoers were aware of conflicts within the family — and saw
it as a hopeful sign that he showed up at the event. “They thought, ‘Oh, this is good. This is progress,’ ” Tambria Read told the newspaper. Authorities said this week that Kelley was estranged from
his wife and angry at his mother-in-law, who worships at First Baptist
but wasn’t inside the church when he attacked, and had sent her threatening text messages. Wilson County Sheriff Joe Tackitt said the pastor at First Baptist didn’t want Kelley around his congregation. “The pastor did know the man,” Tackitt told CNN. “He did not
want him at his church . . . because he just thought he was not a good
person to be around.”
Betty MacDonald Fan Club, founded by Wolfgang Hampel, has members in 40 countries.
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Betty MacDonald Fan Club Honour Members are Monica Sone, author of Nisei Daughter and described as Kimi in Betty MacDonald's The Plague and I, Betty MacDonald's nephew, artist and writer Darsie Beck, Betty MacDonald fans and beloved authors and artists Gwen Grant, Letizia Mancino, Perry Woodfin, Traci Tyne Hilton, Tatjana Geßler, music producer Bernd Kunze, musician Thomas Bödigheimer, translater Mary Holmes and Mr. Tigerli.
