Miah told Congress that she covered herself with a classmate’s blood during the shooting.
Miah Cerrillo recounted what happened when a gunman entered her classroom at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas last month killing 19 students and two teachers.
Miah, a fourth-grader at the school, was among a group of mass shooting survivors, families and advocates testifying before the House Oversight and Reform Committee. The hearing was held as lawmakers debate new gun laws in the wake of a slew of recent mass shootings. “We were just watching a movie,” she said. “And then she heard something and went to lock the door. He was in the hallway and then he came in and attacked. And then went to the back of the room and she told us to go hide. And then we went to go hide behind my teacher’s desk and behind the backpacks and then he shot the little window.
“And then he shot some of my classmates and the whiteboard. When I went to the backpacks, he shot my friend that was next to me and I thought he was gonna come back into the room, so I grabbed the blood and I put it all over me. And I stayed quiet and then called 911.”She added that she does not feel safe in school and believes it could happen again.“As I entered the ER, the first casualty I came across was Miah Cerrillo,” he said.
“When I saw Miah sitting there, I remembered sitting her parents outside, so after seeing the parents outside, I raced outside to let her see that she was alive.”"I chose to be a pediatrician, I chose to take care of children, keeping them safe from preventable diseases I can do," he said."Keeping them safe from bacteria and brittle bones I can do. But making sure our children are safe from guns, that is the job of our politicians and leaders.
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