THE 11-year-old survivor who covered herself in her friend’s blood to hide from the Texas school shooter is set to testify in front of the House Committee on Wednesday.
Miah Cerrillo, 11, witnessed her teachers and classmates be shot dead by gunman Salvador Ramos, 18, at Robb Elementary in Uvalde on May 24.
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Days after the shooting, Miah’s aunt Blanca Rivera told Click 2 Houston that her niece “saw her friend full of blood, and she got blood and put it on herself.”
Miah sustained injuries in the shooting and had bullet fragments in her back but has since fully recovered.
However, her aunt says the 11-year-old has struggled to cope with the tragedy and has had panic attacks.
Twenty-one people, including 19 students, were killed during the massacre after Ramos barricaded himself inside a fourth-grade classroom and opened fire.
Fourth-grade teachers Irma Garcia and Eva Mireles were among those that perished in the shooting.
A different fourth-grader had also shared how he survived the Texas school shooting – by hiding when the gunman stormed in and said: “It’s time to die.”
The student said he and several of his friends escaped by running under a table with a tablecloth as cover.
“When I heard the shooting through the door, I told my friend to hide under something so he won’t find us,” the boy told KENS 5.
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“I was hiding hard. And I was telling my friend to not talk because he is going to hear us.”
The boy also shared that when cops showed up and asked those who needed help to yell, a student complied and was then shot by Ramos.
“One of the persons in my class said ‘help.’ The guy overheard and he came in and shot her,” he said.
Once the shooting stopped, he came out from under the table.
“I just put my hand out,” he added. “I got out with my friend. I knew it was the police. I saw the armor and the shield.”
The boy said that his teachers, Irma and Eva, tried to save their students.
“They were nice teachers,” he shared. “They went in front of my classmates to help. To save them.”
Fellow survivor Chance Aguirre, nine, told NBC News he and other students hid in the cafeteria when shots began to be fired.
“We were all hiding behind the stage in the cafeteria when it happened,” said the third-grader.
“Everybody was scared. We were all panicking because we didn’t know what was really happening.”
The 19 children have been identified by loved ones as Amerie Jo Garza, Xavier Lopez, Uziyah Garcia, Makenna Lee Elrod, Ellie Garcia, Eliahana ‘Elijah Cruz’ Torres, Annabell Guadalupe Rodriguez, Tess Marie Mata, Lexi Rubio, Nevaeh Bravo, Rojelio Torres, Jayce Carmelo Luevanos, Jailah Nicole Silguero, Miranda Mathis, Jose Flores, Maite Yuleana, Jackie Cazares, Alexandria Aniyah Rubio and Alithia Ramirez.
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