“I don’t want this to happen again,” an 11-year-old girl, survivor of the May 24 massacre in a Texas elementary school, implored the US Congress on Wednesday.
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Miah Cerrillo, who covered herself in the blood of a comrade whose corpse lay next to her to escape the attention of the shooter, plunged the country back into the horror of the Uvalde shooting, where 19 children and two teachers had been killed during a hearing on the regulation of firearms in the United States.
The assailant “shot my teacher, he said + good night + to my teacher and he shot her in the head. Then he shot some of my comrades and the painting, ”testified the little girl in comments broadcast by video.
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Miah Cerrillo’s father, Miguel Cerrillo
“When I got close to the backpacks he shot my friend who was right next to me and I thought he was going to come back into the room,” she said.
“So I took some blood and smeared it all over myself…I was quiet, then I grabbed my teacher’s phone and called (the emergency number) 911.”
Miah Cerrillo assured that she no longer felt safe at school.