Miah Cerrillo, 11, said that he and his classmates were watching a children’s movie classic in class when the shooter broke in and came face to face with one of the teachers he murdered. In the midst of the slaughter, he put on music
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Miah Cerrillo, the 11-year-old girl who survived the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde pretending to be dead with the blood of a friend, revealed details about the previous moments to the shooting.
The little girl told Nora Neus of CNN all the details.. She had previously requested to speak only with a woman and avoid doing so before TV cameras. The journalist revealed the information she obtained from the talk she had with the surviving girl.
She and her classmates were watching the movie “Lilo & amp ; Stitch ” when her teachers Eva Mireles and Irma García received an email notifying them that there was a shooter at school.
“Miah says that everything happened very fast. She backed the teacher into the classroom. He made eye contact with the teacher, again, looked her straight in the eye and said ‘goodnight,’ then shot and killed her.”
At that moment, the shooter, Salvador Ramos, started shooting and one of the bullets hit the other teacher and several students.
Salvador Ramos
Miah was also hit by bullet fragments, which are visible in his back, on his shoulders and on the back of his head, Neus said.
After opening fire in Miah’s classroom, Ramos entered an adjoining one. The girl told CNN that she heard screaming, many more shots, and also music .
“She believes it was the shooter who put. She started playing sad music. She said it sounded like ‘I want people to die’ music”, the journalist said.
For fear that the shooter would return to her classroom, < b>Miah took blood from a friend lying next to her and put it on her to pretend to be dead.
Pastor Daniel Myers of the Tabernacle of Worship prays in front of crosses as people pay their respects at a memorial near Robb Elementary School where gunman Salvador Ramos shot and killed 19 children and two adults in Uvalde, Texas, USA. May 26, 2022. Jack Gruber/USA Today Network via REUTERS
She and a friend also managed to take her dead teacher’s phone and call 911 for help . “Please send help because we’re in trouble,” she told the operator, according to Neus.
For Miah, the traumatic experience felt like three hours, though it wouldn’t have lasted longer. of one She then heard that the police were waiting outside the school. Recounting this during the interview, she began to cry, saying she didn’t understand why they weren’t coming in to save them.
According to CNN, Miah is fighting to overcome the trauma and his parents have started a campaign to raise money to pay for his therapy.