Aunt – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Value

The family of an 11-year-old woman who survived the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday says the 4th grader performed lifeless after the gunman entered her classroom.

Miah Cerrillo's aunt and godmother stated the 4th grader is struggling to cope and telling them what she witnessed during the capturing.

"Around midnight my sister-in-law known as me and he or she was simply crying, like 'I believe it simply hit Miah. I feel all the pieces got here to actuality now,'" mentioned Blanca Rivera.

Rivera stated Miah's instructor, Irma Garcia, was one of the two teachers killed. Her friends and classmates had been also focused.

Rivera mentioned that is when Miah went into survival mode.

"Miah obtained some blood and put it on herself so she might pretend she was useless," stated Rivera. "It's an excessive amount of for me to play that scene again and again, but that's what my sister-in-law stated is that she noticed her friend full of blood and she or he acquired blood and put it on herself."

Miah was injured but taken to the hospital and has been launched.

"My brother mentioned she had bullet fragments in her back," said Rivera.

Rivera, a mother of three, said the household is rallying round Miah to assist her get better bodily, emotionally and spiritually.

"At this level, we simply have to hope and ask God to help us transfer forward by means of this case, I do know it's traumatizing as it's," said Rivera.

Nearly everybody within the town of Uvalde has been touched by the loss of somebody in the mass shooting at Robb Elementary Faculty, residents are supporting one another as they start dealing with the tragedy.