Family members of an 11-year-old student at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, are speaking out about some of the events that occurred inside the classroom. According to the NY Post, Miah Cerrillo saw her friend get fatally shot in front of her inside their fourth-grade class Tuesday, she went into what her aunt detailed as “survivor mode” and smeared the other girl’s blood on her body to convince the mass shooter that she, too, was dead.
11-year-old Miah Cerrillo reportedly dialed 911 on her teachers’ phone before laying on top of her dying friend and pretending to be dead herself. When she was rescued, her hair was “singed by gunfire.” Her younger sister also survived the shooting.https://t.co/GsLGryByll
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“My sister-in-law said is that she saw her friend full of blood, and she got blood and put it on herself,” Blanca Rivera shared with station KPRC about her niece, Miah Cerrillo.
Before playing dead, the young girl made a quick decision and managed to grab her dead teacher’s phone and contact 911 for help.
“His daughter Miah told Cerrillo she quickly grabbed the phone and called 911, and then hid from the shooter by lying down on top another student, pretending to be dead.”
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Miah was injured but taken to the hospital and has been released. “My brother said she had bullet fragments in her back,” said Rivera.
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Joe Garcia, whose wife, Irma, was killed Tuesday in the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, has died of a heart attack, according to a family member https://t.co/mfOWrZH8gP
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The father of a 10-year-old girl who was killed in this week’s mass shooting at a school in Uvalde, Texas says police did not act quickly enough to save his daughter, 18 other students and 2 teachers: “They should have rushed in.” pic.twitter.com/BJz1zkXEHy
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This thread will be dedicated to the victims of the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
As a parent, my heart is broken seeing these faces and their ages.
My condolences to their families during this difficult time
Xavier Lopez, 10. He was a 4th grader at Robb Elementary. pic.twitter.com/261cSEBFZ3
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Rivera, a mother of three, said the family is rallying around Miah to help her recover physically, emotionally and spiritually.
“At this point, we just have to pray and ask God to help us move forward through this situation, I know it’s traumatizing as it is,” said Rivera.