The Collin County, Texas, Mall Massacre Survivor, Racquel Lee, Breaks Down in Tears as She Recalls how a Hero Store Associate Sacrificed Her Life to Save a Group of Shoppers as They Hid in a Bathroom Closet. She Said They Walked Past Her Body When Police Officers Came to Rescue Them

In the chaos that ensued, the unnamed store associate gathered a frantic Lee and 12 others, including several children, and hid them inside the store’s bathroom closet. The worker then left the group, and Lee hours later was escorted out by police.

On her way out, Lee recalled realizing that among the mass of ‘bullets and bodies’ outside, was the same store worker that hid her barely an hour before.

‘The store associate saved our lives,’ Lee tearfully told CBS News Texas Sunday, ultimately cutting the interview short after becoming too emotional.

‘I was crouching down, like, “I hope we don’t get hit by a bullet,”‘ the near-victim added of when the gunfire began.’

Earlier in the interview, Lee explained how she parked her White SUV in front of the H&M where the gunman was seen arriving and opening fire on a group that included children.

Lee said that immediately, even inside the store, she and other shoppers recognized they were gun shots and ran for cover.

‘The gunshots – it sounded like a warzone,’ she recalled. ‘It was horrifying and it felt like you were in a dream.’

She went on to detail how once inside the closet, she and others seen in footage shared by the mom with CBS desperately tried to refrain from crying in fear the gunman would find them.

She said people were also trying to call emergency responders, but did not have service in the restroom closet.

‘We were in a bathroom closet, and we were just in the closet trying not be heard, crying, praying – people were trying to call 911, we couldn’t dial out.’

She tearfully added: ‘I just remembered thinking – Oh god, he’s coming in here next.’

Fortunately for her and others hiding out in the restroom, Garcia – a suspected Neo-Nazi and Dallas resident – was killed by an Allen PD officer who happened to be on the scene and also heard the gunshots.

The killer had fired more than 100 times, and had more ammunition and weapons in his car, when he was shot dead.

After the shooter was subdued, Lee was among hundreds of others escorted off the premises by local and state cops, who discovered her and the others while doing a sweep of each of the outlet’s stores.

Her recollection of the events that unfolded Saturday afternoon come on the heels of other accounts detailing others’ selfless deeds that perhaps saved lives during the shooting.