Uvalde shooting survivor testifies before Congress: 'I grabbed the blood and I put it all over me'

An 11-year-old girl who survived the Robb Elementary School shooting by smearing a classmate's blood on herself in order to appear dead to the gunman told the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform on Wednesday (June 8) that she doesn't feel safe in school anymore, Austin NBC affiliate KXAN reported.

Miah Cerrillo recounted her experience of that horrific day to lawmakers in a prerecorded video, saying she witnessed her teacher and classmates die, according to the station. 

An 18-year-old gunman opened fire at the school and killed 21 people, including 19 students. Law enforcement officials ultimately shot the suspect to death. 

“He shot my teacher and told my teacher 'good night' and shot her in the head," the girl told legislators, KXAN reported. “And then he shot some of my classmates and the white board.”

According to the station, Cerrillo said her class was watching a movie when the incident began.

The teacher and the suspected shooter had made eye contact, the student said.

Cerrillo further explained that her teacher told everyone to hide as the gunman shot through the door window, but after he went to another classroom, he entered hers through an adjoining door and began firing, KXAN reported.

The girl feared that she would be the next to die in the carnage.

“I thought he [the gunman] was going to come back to the room, so I grabbed the blood and I put it all over me,” she said, the station reported.

Cerrillo added that she remained silent before grabbing her dead teacher's phone to call 911.

She shook her head to say "no" when she was asked by a person unseen in the video if she felt safe at school, according to KXAN.

The station reported that the girl's father, Miguel Cerrillo, was physically at the congressional hearing in Washington, D.C.

He purportedly fought through tears talking about his daughter, who he said he "could've lost."

“She is that same little girl that I used to play with,” the elder Cerrillo said, KXAN reported. “I wish something will change not only for our kids, but every single kid in the world because schools are not safe anymore. Something needs to really change.”