Angel Garza told CNN's Anderson Cooper his child, Amerie Jo Garza, 10, whom he described as "the sweetest little girl," tried to use her cell phone to call the police when the gunman took her life.

"She was just trying to do the right thing. She was just trying to call the cops, that's all," he said. "I just want people to know that she just died trying to save her classmates. She just wanted to save everyone."

Garza, a medical aide, said his daughter had just received a phone for her birthday two weeks before the shooting. (Screengrab image)

After he arrived at the scene Tuesday to help victims, he said two students revealed his child was shot while trying to phone authorities for help.

Garza shared some incredibly painful details in his gut-wrenching interview with Cooper. They only add to the unimaginable images of the horrors that befell students inside the building... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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