Director and Colonel of the Texas Department of Public Safety Steven C. McCraw listens with other law enforcement officials during a press conference outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 27, 2022.
Director and Colonel of the Texas Department of Public Safety Steven C. McCraw listens with other law enforcement officials during a press conference outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 27, 2022.CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images
  • Texas authorities wrongly claimed that the door to the school was propped open, leaving the Uvalde staffer devastated.

  • Amy Marin told ABC News she had to go to the hospital after Texas officials blamed her.

  • Marin said that he was shaking from head to toe when he closed the door to the school.

The staffer at Uvalde's Robb Elementary School who Texas authorities wrongly claimed propped the door to the building open before the shooting was so distraught that she had to be hospitalized.

The school aide told ABC News that she was shaking from head to toe.

Marin said that her daughter was forced to go to the hospital after she heard that the teacher who gave the shooter access to the school was blamed for the mass shooting.

Marin said that he told his boss to close the door.

In the aftermath of the shooting that left 21 dead, including 19 students, the door used by the shooter was propped open by a teacher.

The staff worker closed the door when she saw the shooter, but the door did not lock.

One of the many times Texas authorities changed their story was after the massacre. The response to the shooting by law enforcement has come under scrutiny.

Marin told ABC News that she is suffering from post-traumatic arthritis which is very painful.

Marin said that she keeps replaying that day.

I can see the faces of those people. Marin said that he prays for them nightly. He doesn't know what I go through. Nobody is sure. He pointed the finger at me.

Marin told her counselor that it would have been better if she had been shot.

You would think that people who are higher up in the hierarchy know what they're doing. She said that he didn't know what his words did.

Marin said that she died on the day of the massacre.

I'm not sure right now. Sometimes I go into darkness. I tell myself that I can't let him win. Marin told ABC News that the man could not be allowed to win. I'm fighting. I'll be fine. I will learn to live with this.

According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, a teacher at Robb Elementary School used a rock to open the door that the shooter used to enter the building.

The department apologized to the teacher and her family for the additional grief they have been caused by the mistake.

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