Uvalde Teacher Lynn Deming's Testimony on Robb Elementary Shooting Response

Teacher's Role and Training

• 🍎 Lynn Deming, a STEM teacher at Legacy Elementary (formerly Robb Elementary), details her experience as a fourth-grade teacher at Robb Elementary for six years.
• 🔒 She explains the district's lockdown procedures: lights out, lock the door, cover windows, and hide.
• 📚 Students were trained to hide and be quiet during lockdown drills, which occurred multiple times a year.

Events of May 24, 2022

• ☀️ On the day of the shooting, Deming's class was preparing to go to recess around 11:20 AM after an award ceremony.
• 🚪 While holding the door for a student retrieving a water bottle, she heard a coach yelling and what sounded like fireworks.
• 🏃‍♀️ Reacting to the perceived danger, she immediately initiated a lockdown, instructing students to get back inside and hide.

During the Lockdown

• 💥 Shots were fired through her classroom window, causing debris to hit her and shatter the glass.
• 🛡️ Fearing the students were in a vulnerable position, she tried to shield them and repositioned a desk to block the window.
• 🩸 Students noticed blood on her shirt and a hole, realizing she had been hit by shrapnel.
• 🤫 Deming instructed her students to pray and told them she loved them, wanting that to be the last thing they heard.

Escape and Aftermath

• 🆘 Later, officers (including Border Patrol) arrived and assisted in evacuating students and Deming through the shattered window.
• 🏃‍♂️ The urgency of the officers' instructions to