A young girl who survived the Texas school massacre has spoken out and recalled the time the shooter entered her classroom.
11-year-old Miah Cerrillo was watching the movie Lilo and Stitch with her classmates on Tuesday when 18-year-old Salvador Ramos charged into Robb Elementary School and walked into her classroom.
According to the reports, Miah’s teacher only received an active shooter alert via e-mail which she hadn’t seen in time to barricade the classroom from within.
When the teacher attempted to lock the door, Ramos appeared in front of the classroom and shot at the glass window in the door.
In an interview with CNN, Miah recalled the gunman looking at one of her teachers and saying ‘goodnight’ before shooting her dead.
After killing the teacher, Ramos allegedly started playing “sad” music which the young girl described as the type of music one would play when they “want people to die.”
Miah also recalled covering herself in her dead friend’s blood to make it look as if she was dead and avoid being shot by the gunman.
Following the horrific mass shooting, the 11-year-old broke down and couldn’t stop crying. Her family has since revealed they will be working to provide the young girl and her sister, who is a second-grader at the school, with treatment to help her recover emotionally and mentally.
“At this point, we just have to pray and ask God to help us move forward through this situation. I know it’s traumatizing and having an 11-year-old go through this, I can’t imagine what she’s feeling,” Blanca Rivera, Miah’s aunt, said in an interview with Click 2 Houston.
Speaking out about the shooting was also 10-year-old Jayden Perez, one of Miah’s classmates, who told CNN that they were forced into hiding after hearing bullets rip through a nearby classroom.
“It was very terrifying because I never thought that was going to happen,” the young boy said.
He went on to recall the names of his friends whom he saw die during the shooting.
As Jayden added, he is not willing to go back to school after everything that happened because he is positive it can happen again.
“I don’t want to. I don’t want anything to do with another shooting or me in the school. And I know it might happen again, probably,” Jayden said.
Our thoughts remain with the victims and their families during these challenging times.
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