Survivors are speaking out to detail their horrifying memories of Sunday’s Texas church shooting.
Rosa Solis was shot in the arm during the massacre at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, and survived by hiding under a bench and playing dead.
She was discharged from the hospital late Monday after being treated for a gunshot wound to her left arm. She spoke out to ABC News from her home after to detail the killer’s chilling only words.
As Devin Patrick Kelley walked up and down the church’s center aisle, shooting at the scores of parishioners, Solis says he yelled ‘Everybody dies motherf*****!’
Rosa Solis survived Sunday’s Texas church shooting by playing dead and hiding underneath a bench
She recalled the horrifying ordeal after being discharged from the hospital late Monday night, where she was treated for a gunshot wound to her left arm
Solis says the only other sound was of ‘people screaming and people crying’ and children yelling for their mothers.
Solis says the only thing gunman Devin Patrick Kelley said during the shooting was ‘Everybody dies motherf*****!’
She didn’t dare move to aid any of the other victims.
‘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 played dead. I made sure I hid myself good under that bench,’ she said.
David Brown, whose mother Farida was shot in the shooting and continues to recover at the hospital, says she told him that the killer walked up and down the aisle about 10 to 15 times.
Brown believes his mother survived thanks to her cellphone, which acted as a bulletproof vest of sorts, catching many of the bullets.
‘She just laid on the floor,’ he told GMA. ‘The shooter was shooting everybody. I guess he could see everybody trying to run. And then after no one was moving they were just laying on the floor, he walked up and down all the aisles shooting everyone as they laid on the floor, she said.’
The massacre finally came to the end when local resident Stephen Willeford ran to the church with his own gun.
The church pictured above on Monday, as investigators combed the scene for evidence
In an interview with ABC 40/29, Willeford said he was at home when his daughter ran into the house and said she heard gunshots coming from the church nearby.
Willeford didn’t even stop to put on his shoes, he grabbed his gun and ran to the church and shot at Kelley, a former Airman.
Willeford’s reprisals caused Kelley to flee the church, taking off in his SUV which he parked at a gas station across the street.
The massacre came to an end when neighbor Stephen Willeford, right, ran over to the church with his own gun. Kelley fled in his car and Willeford chased him, with the help of Johnnie Langendorff, left, who had stopped at a gas station across the street
Willeford and Langendorff embraced at a prayer vigil Monday night, after seeing each other for the first time since the incident
At the gas station, Willeford ran into another man, Johnnie Lagendorff, who agreed to chase Willeford in his own truck.
The two chased Kelley until he eventually lost control of his car and crashed about 10 miles away.
When police arrived at the scene, they found Kelley dead from a gunshot wound to the head, which they believe was self-inflicted.
In total, Willeford killed 26 people in the attack and injured 20. Thirteen of the injured were still hospitalized as of Monday evening.