Miah Cerrillo,11, has recounted the terror of the day a gunman shot her classmates in Uvalde as the US Congress comes under pressure to act on gun violence. The Age US correspondent FarrahTomazin reports MiahCerrillo Uvalde
She was the 11-year-old girl who smeared the blood of a dying friend over her own body in a bid to stay alive., Miah Cerrillo has recounted the terror of that day as the US Congress comes under growing pressure to act on gun violence.
“Then he shot a little window and then he went to other classrooms. There’s a door between our classrooms. He went there, followed my teacher and told my teacher ‘goodnight’ and then shot her in the head. Then he shot some of my classmates and the whiteboard, and then he shot my friend.“I thought he was going to come back so I grabbed her blood and put it all over me and stayed quiet. Then I grabbed my teacher’s phone and called 911. I told them that we need help and to send the police.
A visitor places bracelets on crosses at a memorial as he and others pay their respects to the victims killed in the Robb Elementary School shootingAlso at today’s hearing was Miah Cerrillo’s father, Miguel, who told the committee how his daughter had not been the same ever since the massacre.
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