A young survivor of the massacre at a Texas school said she was covered in the blood of a friend and pretended to be dead while waiting for help to arrive.
Miah Cerrillo, 11, told CNN that she and a friend called the 911 emergency number on Tuesday from her dead teacher’s phone and waited for what “seemed like three hours” for officers to arrive at the scene. Robb primary school in Uvalde.
The 18-year-old gunman, Salvador Ramos, was inside the school for more than an hour before being shot dead by U.S. Border Patrol tactical officers.
Law enforcement has provided new details of a confusing and sometimes contradictory chronology that has angered and frustrated parents and spectators who had urged police to charge against the school.
Miah said that after Ramos moved from one room to the next, she could hear screams and many more shots, and the gunman started playing music.
The children who survived the attack, which killed 19 students and two teachers, described an end-of-year holiday that quickly turned into terror.
Camera iconMiah Cerrillo. Credit: supplied
Samuel Salinas, 10, told ABC Good Morning America that he and other classmates pretended to be dead after Ramos opened fire on the class. Samuel was shot in the thigh.
“He shot the teacher and then the kids,” said Samuel, who was in Irma Garcia’s class.
Teacher Garcia died in the attack and her husband, Joe Garcia, died Thursday of an apparent heart attack.
Gemma Lopez, 10, was in a hallway classroom when Ramos entered the building.
He told Good Morning America that a bullet went through the wall of his classroom before any blockade was requested.
Her best friend Amerie Heron died in the riot.
Camera Icon Texas School Shooting Victims are remembered before a Houston Astros baseball game. Credit: AP