This is the first known testimony from a survivor of the Uvalde school shooting in Texas, which left 21 people dead, including 19 children.
On the CNN channel, a journalist said on Friday that she was able to speak, during an unfilmed meeting, with Miah Cerrillo, an 11-year-old student from this Texas establishment.
According to the words she reports, the little girl told her that she had smeared herself with blood from a comrade, whose body was next to her, and had played dead to escape the shooter Salvator Ramos, aged 18 years old.
It was an honor to meet 11-year-old Miah, who survived the Robb Elementary shooting in Uvalde by smearing her friend's blood all over her and playing dead.
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After learning that an armed man was in the school, while they were showing their students the cartoon "Lilo and Stitch", the two teachers Eva Mireles and Irma Garcia tried to protect the children at all costs.
So, as Miah Cerrillo tells the journalist, one of them tried to close the classroom door, but the shooter was already there.
According to the girl, then everything went very quickly.
The girl alerted the police
Salvador Ramos would have looked at the teacher before saying "good night" to her and shooting her, then shooting her colleague, before attacking other students.
The shooter would then have opened a door leading to a second class.
Miah recounts having heard shots, cries while Salvador Ramos had put “sad music” on the loudspeaker.
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The girl allegedly used a dead teacher's mobile phone to alert the police and ask them to intervene: “Come on, please… we have a problem”.
Wounded in the shoulder and head by shrapnel, the girl thought that the police had still not arrived on the scene.
An open kitty for Miah
Later, she remembers from the American channel, she heard the police coming outside.
Miah continued, in tears, saying she couldn't understand why they hadn't come to save them.
The girl also told CNN that she was too scared to speak to a man or in front of a camera, but wanted people to know what happened in that classroom.
Since the tragedy, tufts of hair have fallen from the little girl's skull.
His parents have launched an online kitty to finance his medical and psychological follow-up.
