The family of an 11-year-old girl who survived the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday, says the fourth-grader was killed after the gunman entered her home. classroom.
Miah Cerrillo’s aunt and godmother said the fourth grader was struggling to cope and told them what she had witnessed during the shooting.
“Around midnight, my sister-in-law called me and I was just crying, like ‘I think I just played Miah. I think everything has come true now,'” said Blanca Rivera.
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Rivera said Miah’s teacher, Irma Garcia, was one of two teachers killed.
His friends and classmates were also attacked.
Rivera said that was when Miah went into survival mode.
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“Miah took some blood and put it on herself so she could pretend she was dead,” Rivera said.
“It’s too much for me to interpret this scene over and over again, but that’s what my sister-in-law said, it’s that she saw her friend full of blood and she got bloody and put it on.”
Miah Cerrillo’s aunt and godmother said the fourth grader was struggling to cope and told them what she had witnessed during the shooting. Credit: KPRC
Miah was injured but was taken to hospital and discharged.
“My brother said he had bullet fragments in his back,” Rivera said.
Rivera, a mother of three, said the family is gathering around Miah to help her recover physically, emotionally and spiritually.
“At this point, we just have to pray and ask God to help us move forward in this situation, I know it’s traumatic as it is,” Rivera said.
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Other students who survived the deadly shooting at the school that killed 19 students and two teachers on Tuesday have described the gruesome moments after the gunman entered the school.
Chance Aguirre, 9, a third-grader, said he and his classmates were hiding in the cafeteria when they heard gunshots.
“Everyone was scared,” he said in an account filmed by NBC’s San Antonio affiliate WOAI.
“We were all in a panic because we didn’t know what was really going on.”
The student described seeing “thousands of police and border patrols” enter the cafeteria, while he and others hid behind a stage in the room.
“We had to drop out of school,” he said.
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Speaking to San Antonio CBS affiliate KENS, a fourth-grader who appeared to be in the classroom where the students died recalled that the shooter entered the room and said, “It’s time to die.”
The child was not identified and NBC News was unable to verify his account.
“When I heard the shot through the door, I told my friend to hide under something so he wouldn’t find us,” the boy told KENS.
“He was hiding hard from me. And he was telling my friend not to talk because he was going to listen to us.”
The student said he and four other people protected themselves under a table with a tablecloth on it, which could have hidden them from view from the shooter.
“When the cops came, the cop said,‘ Call if you need help, ’” the boy said, according to KENS.
“And one of the people in my class said, ‘Help.’ The boy heard and came in and shot him.”
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He added: “The policeman entered that classroom. The boy shot the policeman. And the police started firing.”
The young man said that once the shooting had stopped, he came out from under the table.
“I just opened the curtain. And I just pulled my hand out,” he told KENS.
“I went out with my friend. I knew he was a cop. I saw the armor and the shield.”
The student credited his teachers, Irma Garcia and Eva Mireles, who both died in the school shooting, to having saved the lives of the surviving students.
“They were good teachers,” he said.
“They went in front of my teammates to help. To save them. “
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