Miah Cerrillo, 11, survived the Uvalde massacre by covering himself with the blood of a classmate and pretending to be dead while listening to shots and screams, the girl told a journalist from CNN. The testimony was obtained in an off-camera interview.
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Miah, who according to the channel is so traumatized that she cannot talk to men, recounted the horrendous attack perpetrated on Tuesday by 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, who murdered 19 children and two teachers at the Robb elementary school in Uvalde, a majority Latino community in Texas.
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Miah’s class was watching TV in a room with two teachers when they got a message that someone was shooting inside the school, the girl said, according to CNN.
One of the teachers went to the door and ran into Ramos who followed her into the classroom, said “Good night” and shot her. Immediately, she opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle against the other teacher and the children. Miah claims to have seen bullets flying around her.
11-year-old Miah Cerrillo told me that to survive the shooting at Robb Elementary, she smeared her friend’s blood all over her body and played dead.
She had to lay there, with her teachers and friends dead next to her, for almost an hour.
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— Nora Neus (@noraneus) May 27, 2022
CNN reported that bullet fragments hit her in the shoulders and head. Ramos went to the next classroom, and soon heard more shots and screams. The bullets stopped, and she began to hear “sad music.”
She claims to have reached for a teacher’s phone with a friend to call the emergency service for help. “We’re in trouble,” she said.
Scared that Ramos would come back and kill her, covered herself with the blood of a classmate who died next to her and pretended to be dead so for her it felt like three hours.
In accordance with CNNMiah said she couldn’t sleep and was losing her hair after the attack.
Another one of the stories #Uvalde It is that of 11-year-old Miah Cerrillo, who survived the massacre by staining her clothes with the blood of her murdered companion to pretend to be dead. What stories, damn!😢 pic.twitter.com/eXEeYMd69A
– Hiram Hurtado (@ehiramhurtado) May 27, 2022
She will need help with her medical expenses caused by a bullet fragment in her back
His mother, Abigale Veloz, opened an online fundraiser through GoFundMe to pay for psychological and medical treatment.
“She is a survivor of the Uvalde school shooting. Her classroom was under attack,” Veloz wrote on the page with a photo of Miah. “She will need a lot of help with the trauma that she is going through. My daughter is an amazing person and she is a good sister.”
This Friday afternoon, donations exceeded 270,000 dollars, with an initial goal of 10,000.
AFP
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