As the
first funerals for two of the young victims of the Sandy Hook school massacre —
6-year-olds Noah Pozner and Jack Pinto — will be held Monday, this
is an incredible story of a first grader, who survived Adam Lanza’s gun rampage
on Friday by playing dead, Pastor Jim
Solomon told ABC News Sunday.
“How at 6
1/2 years old can you be that smart, that brave?” the pastor said Sunday. “I
think it’s impossible outside of divine intervention. She has wisdom beyond her
years”.
Solomon
said he learned how the girl — the only one in her class of 16 to survive
Lanza’s hail of bullets — made it out alive during grief counseling in the wake
of the massacre.
The pastor
said the child witnessed “someone who she felt was angry and somebody who
she felt was mad”.
Solomon
said that when the child — covered in blood as she emerged from the carnage —
was reunited with her mother, she told her, “Mommy, I’m okay, but all my
friends are dead”.
He said the
child’s family is coping “as well as you can expect them to” in the wake
of the mass killing, which left 28 people in all dead, 20 of them students
between the ages of 6 and 7.
This little girl is very brave and
very blessed. Hopefully she will get the help that she needs to deal with this
tragedy.
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