Heartbreaking videos have emerged of the moment a 12-year-old Texas girl was filming herself getting ready for a cheerleading competition when her house exploded and killed her.
Linda 'Michellita' Rogers recorded herself doing her hair in three different cellphone videos in her Dallas home on the morning of February 23 last year.
The videos show the sixth-grader smiling and happy in the moments before a huge gas explosion tore apart her family's home and claimed Michellita's life.
Her family were sleeping when the explosion occurred and all miraculously survived their injuries.
They later found Michellita's phone among the debris and released her final and tragic videos ahead of the one-year anniversary of her death.
Linda 'Michellita' Rogers recorded herself doing her hair in three different cellphone videos in her Dallas home on the morning of February 23 last year before the fatal explosion
'Good morning, guys. It is 6.02am. I'm going to get ready for the National Cheerleaders Association today,' Michellita whispered in the first video obtained by Dallas News.
The 12-year-old whispered into the camera excitedly to avoid waking her parents, grandmother and brother. It is likely that she was planning to later share the videos with her friends on social media.
'I'm going to start with hair, turn on my lamp because I don't want to turn on all of the lights,' she said.
In the second video, Michellita appeared on camera dressed in her red, black and white cheer uniform.
'I'm sorry if you guys can't hear me still. But oh, well. They're all sleeping,' she said.
Michellita spoke into the camera showing off her straightening iron and how she had already started a braid at the front of her hair.
'All that's left to do is the ponytail. Straighten it, curl it, poof it, whatever,' she said.
The third and final video was a timelapse of Michellita standing in front of a mirror as she fixed her hair.
Michellita spoke into the camera showing off her straightening iron and how she had already started a braid at the front of her hair
