Fourth grader Miah Cerrillo, who survived the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, recounted Wednesday what she experienced that deadly day.
Driving the news: "We were just watching TV and then [the teacher] got an email," 11-year-old Cerrillo said in a pre-recorded video to Congress. "She went to go lock the door and he was in the hallway and they made eye contact."
- The students hid behind their teacher's desk and backpacks, Cerrillo said, and the gunman shot the window between the classrooms.
- "[He] told my teacher goodnight and shot her in the head" Cerillo said.
- "When I went to the backpacks, he shot my friend … I thought he was going to come back to the room, so I grabbed the blood and I put it all over me," she said.
Cerillo testified that she doesn't feel safe at school.
- "I don't want it to happen again," she said.
Miguel Cerrillo, Miah's father, also testified Wednesday, urging lawmakers for change in the wake of the deadly shooting.
- "I come because I could’ve lost my baby girl," Miguel said through tears. "She’s not the same little girl that I used to play with and run with and do everything, because she was daddy’s 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," he said.
- "Something needs to really change."
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