Minutes before Avila felt the pain of the bullet piercing her intestine and colon, she was motioning students away from the walls and windows and closer to her.
When Elsa Avila looks at the scar that runs down her torso, she can't help but remember May 24, when a gunman stormed her fourth grade wing at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, killing 19 children and two teachers and leaving her and others wounded
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UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Elsa Avila slid to her phone, terrified as she held the bleeding side of her abdomen and tried to stay calm for her students. In a text to her family that she meant to send to fellow Uvalde teachers, she wrote: I m shot.