** NOTE: This article contains disturbing descriptions of a fatal event. Please read at your own discretion. ** An 11-year-old student at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas says she covered herself with a classmate’s blood and played dead to avoid being shot on Tuesday.
Miah Cerrillo told CNN Friday that she put her hands in the blood of a classmate after the shooter left the classroom and smeared it on herself to appear as though she was already dead, in case the killer came back to the room.
She survived, but her aunt, Blanca Rivera, told NBC in Houston that she saw her teacher and friends massacred. Read more: Texas school shooting police response faces scrutiny.
Here’s how the day unfolded Cerrillo told CNN that her class was watching a movie Tuesday afternoon when her teachers got an email about a shooter in the school.