She smeared blood on herself and played dead: 11-year-old reveals chilling details of the massacre

[USALiberal]

An 11-year-old survivor of the Robb Elementary School massacre in Uvalde, Texas, feared the gunman would come back for her so she smeared herself in her friend’s blood and played dead.

Miah Cerrillo spoke exclusively to CNN about her horrific experience that day inside the classroom where the mass shooting took place that killed 19 of her classmates and two of her teachers.

Miah said she and her classmates were watching the movie “Lilo and Stitch” in a classroom shared by two teachers, Eva Mireles and Irma Garcia. The students were finished with their lessons when the teachers got word there was a shooter in the building, she told CNN’s “New Day.”

One teacher went to lock the door, but Miah says the shooter was already right there — and shot out the window in the door.

Lunch goers visit Town House Restaurant in Uvalde, Tx., U.S., on Thursday, May 26, 2022.

Ninteen children and two teachers were killed when an 18-year-old gunman opened fire in a classroom at Robb Elementary School on Tuesday in Uvalde, Tx.

She described it all happening so fast — her teacher backed into the classroom and the gunman followed. She told CNN he made eye contact with one of the teachers, said, “Goodnight,” and then shot her.

He opened fire, shooting the other teacher and many of Miah’s friends. She said bullets flew by her, and fragments hit her shoulders and head. The girl was later treated at the hospital and released with fragment wounds; she described to CNN that clumps of her hair were falling out now.

Miah said after shooting students in her class, the gunman went through a door into an adjoining classroom. She heard screams, and the sound of shots in that classroom. After the shots stopped, though, she says the shooter started playing loud music – sad music, she said.

The girl and a friend managed to get her dead teacher’s phone and call 911 for help. She said she told a dispatcher, “Please come … we’re in trouble.”

Miah said she was scared the gunman would return to her classroom to kill her and a few other surviving friends. So, she dipped her hands in the blood of a classmate – who lay next to her, already dead – and then smeared the blood all over herself to play dead.

Miah said it felt like three hours that she lay there, covered in her classmate’s blood, with her friends.

More at https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/27/us/robb-shooting-survivor-miah-cerrillo/index.html

[wryter2000]

1. I suppose this is trivial

But how did she know to do that? Are kids tutored in this kind of stuff? That in itself is emotional abuse, imho.

[mucifer]

2. She might have seen it in movies. Kids that young do watch some gore.

[2naSalit]

3. It's amazing what...

A child that age can comprehend in order to recognize the need to act to survive. She was aware of how to summon help. Most kids in the US do active shooter drills these days. When I was that age it was "Duck & Cover" that was our notice that really bad shit could happen while we were at school.

I am impressed and saddened at her tacit knowledge that led her to do that. I am glad it saved her. She is a witness and will need years, if not a lifetime, of therapy as will her friends. I hope they can all get through it.