The 11-year-old told US Congress that she wants “to have security” while at school.
An 11-year-old girl has told how she covered herself in her friend’s blood in order to survive the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde in Texas last month.
During a pre-recorded testimony before a congressional panel on US gun violence on Wednesday (8 June), Miah Cerrillo described the events of Tuesday, 24 May which saw two teachers and 19 students killed at the school by 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, before he was shot dead by police.
Miah said that she and her class were watching a movie and that when her teacher went to exit the class, she spotted the gunman in the hallway.
“They made eye contact and then she went back in the room and she told us ‘go hide’,” the schoolgirl stated.
“We went to go hide behind my teacher’s desk and behind the backpacks.”
Miah then said the gunman told her teacher “good night” before shooting the teacher in the head.
“Then he shot some of my classmates and the whiteboard,” she also described.
“When I went to the backpacks, he shot my friend that was next to me.
“I thought he was going to come back to the room so I grabbed a little blood and I put it all over me.
“I stayed quiet and then I got my teacher’s phone and called 911.”
Miah was then asked what she wants to be changed following the shooting, to which she replied she wanted “to have security” while at school.
She also said that she does not feel safe at school and that she fears another shooting will happen there.
“I don’t want it to happen again,” the 11-year-old told Congress.
Miah’s testimony follows Uvalde native Matthew McConaughey on Tuesday calling for more gun responsibility measures to be implemented after the school shooting.
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