WASHINGTON — Miah Cerrillo gave lawmakers a horrifying first-hand account of last month's school massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde as she described covering herself in her friend’s blood to play dead while the shooter gunned down her classmates.
Miah, 11, testified Wednesday via a brief but powerful prerecorded video in which she answered questions from someone off camera. She recounted how her class was watching a movie when her teacher received an email and got up to lock the door, only to lock eyes with the gunman through the door’s small window.
“There’s a door between our classrooms and he went through there and shot my teacher and told my teacher ‘good night’ and shot her in the head,” Miah said. “And then he shot some of my classmates ... he shot my friend that was next to me and I thought he was going to come back to the room so I grabbed the blood and put it all over me.”
