- Angeli Gomez ran into Robb Elementary School during the shooting to save her two kids.
- Gomez told CBS officers handcuffed her and tried to prevent her from entering the school.
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"Right away as I parked, US Marshals started coming toward my car saying that I wasn't allowed to be parked there. And he said, 'Well, we're gonna have to arrest you because you're being very uncooperative,'" Gomez, whose two sons were not in the classroom where the shooting occurred, told CBS.
"I said, 'Well, you're gonna have to arrest me because I'm going in there.' And I'm telling you right now, I don't see none of y'all in there. Y'all are standing with snipers and y'all are far away. If y'all don't go in there, I'm going in there."
Gomez was handcuffed and eventually released by officers while the shooting happened. She made her way into the school by jumping a fence and pulled both of her sons from the school, saying she saw no officers inside as she walked through the halls.
The mother of two was also threatened with a probation violation, she told CBS, by a police official who told her that if she spoke to media about her experience she may be obstructing justice.
A judge later told Gomez she was brave during the incident and her probation would be shortened, despite the threats.
"If anything, they were being more aggressive on us parents that were willing to go in there and, like I told one of the officers: I don't need you to protect me, get away from me. I don't need your protection. If anything, I need you to go in there with me to go protect my kids," Gomez told CBS.
"And if anything, they were being more aggressive on us. They were more pertain on keeping us back then getting into that school."