UVALDE, United States — An
11-year-old survivor of the horrific school shooting in
Uvalde, Texas smeared
herself with the blood of a dead classmate in a bid to hide from the gunman.
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Miah Cerrillo, who has been left too
terrified to speak to men, told CNN she and a friend used a dead teacher’s
cellphone to call for help as the 18-year-old shooter gunned down students and
teachers at her school in rural Texas.
The testimony is the first to emerge
from inside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, where Salvador Ramos murdered 19
young children and two teachers in one of the worst mass shootings to strike
violence-weary America.
The child, whose hair has begun to fall
out in clumps since the massacre, told how Ramos had made eye contact with one
teacher as he pushed his way into her classroom.
He then said “Goodnight” and shot the
teacher dead, before opening fire with his semi-automatic rifle at the other
member of staff and many of Miah’s classmates.
Ramos went into another classroom where
terrified children screamed as he shot them, before starting to play loud, sad
music, Miah told the network in an off-camera interview.
She and a friend scrabbled for their
dead teacher’s cellphone and made an urgent plea to 911 operators: “Please
come... we’re in trouble.”
Miah, who was treated for injuries to
her head and shoulders, was so scared the
teenage gunman would return that she
dipped her hands in the blood of a dead friend and smeared it on herself, lying
there for what felt like hours until help finally came.
Miah’s mother, Abigale Veloz, has set up
a
GoFundMe page to help pay for the medical and psychological help her daughter
needs in the wake of the massacre.
“Her classroom was one of the main rooms
that got targeted,” Veloz said on the GoFundMe page.
“She will need a lot of help with all
the trauma that she is going through.”
“My daughter is (an) amazing person and
is a very good sister to her siblings.”
By Friday afternoon, the appeal had
raised more than $270,000, well over its original target of $10,000.
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