Texas school shooting survivor, 11, recalls using friend’s blood to survive

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Texas school shooting survivor, 11, recalls using friend’s blood to survive
THE 11-year-old girl survivor who covered herself in her friend's blood to hide from the Texas school shooter welled up in her testimony to the House Committee on Wednesday.

Miah Cerrillo, 11, witnessed her teachers and classmates be shot dead by gunman Salvador Ramos, 18, at Robb Elementary in Uvalde on May 24.

In a pre-recorded video, Miah described the horror that played out that fateful day when the teen gunman stormed into her fourth-grade classroom and told her teacher "goodnight' before shooting her in the head.

"He shot some of my classmates, he shot my friend next to me. I thought he was going to come back to the room, so I grabbed blood and put it all over me," the distraught 11-year-old said.

In her statement, Miah said she doesn't feel safe at school "because I don't want it to happen again."

Miah's emotional father, Miguel, was in tears throughout his testimony, saying he was there because he "almost lost his baby girl."

“She is not the same little girl. I wish something would change not only for our kids but every single kid in the world because schools are not safe anymore," Miguel said, fighting back tears.

Miah sustained injuries in the shooting and had bullet fragments in her back but has since fully recovered.

Her aunt, Blanca Rivera, previously told Click 2 Houston that the 11-year-old has struggled to cope with the tragedy and has had panic attacks.

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