Miah Cerrillo, 11, was among the small group of Uvalde survivors and community members who testified at a House hearing Wednesday, offering details about the incident and the devastation to those left behind
Cerrillo was the youngest of a small group of Uvalde survivors and family members who testified at a U.S. House hearing Wednesday about the devastation wrought by gun violence in their communities.
On May 24, an 18-year-old gunman armed with two assault rifles entered the school building, killing 19 children and two teachers and injuring 17 others. That day, Cerrillo said she and her classmates were watching a movie. Her teacher received an email and then got up to lock the door — that’s when the teacher made eye contact with the gunman in the hallway, Cerrillo said.At that point, the teacher told the students to “go hide.” Cerrillo hid behind her teacher’s desk among the backpacks. The shooter then shot “the little window,” presumably part of the door to the hallway.
Cerrillo added that she did not feel safe in school and did not “want it to happen again.” Her pediatrician, Dr. Roy Guerrero, asked her questions off-camera, includingCerrillo was calm and quiet. She didn’t cry. But some of the adults from Uvalde who testified wept before the committee, including her father, Miguel Cerrillo, who traveled to Washington to testify in person.
“I come because I could have lost my baby girl, but she’s not the same baby girl I used to play with,” he said, adding that “schools are not safe anymore.”and the mother of 10-year-old Lexi Rubio, who died that day, described dropping her children off at the school and attending end-of-school-year awards ceremonies that morning. She saw her daughter win the"good citizen award" and recognized for earning straight A's over the school year.
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