When they entered the school, he and the medical examiner found that the first responders had moved the bodies – separating the deceased from the wounded – in order to get to those who needed medical assistance.
“So when we got there, there were children in four rooms – the initial two rooms plus two other rooms,” Diaz said, adding that they “went room by room getting the plan together on what we were going to need to make sure that we identified everybody correctly.”
Diaz did not describe the scene in detail. Instead, he said, “It’s something you never want to see and it’s something you don’t, you cannot, prepare for. It’s a picture that’s going to stay in my head forever, and that’s where I’d like for it to stay.”
He says he has no intention of ever sharing exactly what he saw.
Eulalio "Lalo" Diaz, Jr. had the horrible task of identifying the children shot to death at Robb Elementary.
He says nothing could've prepared him for what he saw in that school. The images will stay with him forever.https://t.co/AUQgDrw1KM
— NPR (@NPR) May 31, 2022