Uvalde shooting survivor recalls covering herself in blood to survive | USA TODAY

Uvalde shooting survivor Miah Cerrillo, 11, tells Congress how she smeared her friend's blood on herself to look dead in a prerecorded message.

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Miah Cerrillo, a fourth grader who smeared herself with her murdered friend’s blood to play dead and stay alive during last month's mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, should be two weeks into her summer vacation.

Instead, the 11-year-old will be a star witness Wednesday morning on Capitol Hill, testifying before a House committee and becoming the face of a nationwide gun control debate.

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18 comments

  1. this is a miracle from god, if god has not allowed him to go, there is only a way for him to save us, may we always be in his protection

    1. Your guy doesn’t have anything to do with anything… You’re weak people turn the other cheek like the cops did with the situation happened

  2. Thank goodness kids are resilient!

    If we stop letting the federal government make her recall the situation in such a victim way… She can move on with her life and she’ll be fine. The real problem is why the hell the doors on the school didn’t lock. And all those cops Would catch my wrath if I was a parent.

  3. 1 Peter 3:21-Corresponding to that, baptism now saves you—not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for a good conscience—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

    Acts 19:4- . . . “John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in Him who was coming after him, that is, in Jesus.”

    1 John 5:6- This is the One who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and with the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

    1 John 5:7- For there are three that testify:

    1 John 5:8- the Spirit and the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement.

  4. Kudos to Boulder, CO! Let’s hope more and more local governments have the wisdom and courage to follow suit. No civilian needs assault weapons. Anyone can wait 10 days. If you can’t hit your target with less than 10 shots you should not be shooting, you’re hopeless. If there were fewer, fragile ego, small dicked males there would be less gun violence. Sweeping Federal Laws needed to corral the paranoid, poor ignorant sob’s who think they know better. The Constitution was meant to evolve with society and the times.

  5. She is a very smart and brave girl. But what she did is the last thing I want my kids to learn.

  6. It’s said that some of the children’s bodies were torn apart and multilated by the rounds fired at the group, This is because the AR-15/M16 uses 5.56 cal which is the standard NATO round for every assault rifle under command and it’s very devastating at close range meant to penetrate body armor like Kevlar vests.

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