Teen stains self with friend’s blood, plays dead to avoid getting shot

An 11-year-old girl played dead after the gunman entered her classroom, her family said on Thursday. They, however, mentioned that the student Miah Cerrillo is struggling to cope and told them what she witnessed during the shooting.

Speaking to KPRC, Ms Cerrillo’s aunt Blanca Rivera said, “My sister-in-law said is that she saw her friend full of blood, and she got blood and put it on herself.”

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Before playing dead, she managed to grab the phone of her teacher – who was killed in the mass shooting – and call 911 for help.

Rivera further said that she got a call from her niece’s mother on the night of the shooting that she was having a “panic attack”, as reported by the New York Post.

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She may have survived one of the worst school shootings in US history, but is still traumatised.

NBC reported that the 11-year-old was taken to the hospital due to injuries sustained by bullet fragments in her back.

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Texas police, meanwhile, faced angry questions on Thursday over why it took an hour to neutralise the gunman who murdered 19 small children and two teachers in Uvalde, as video emerged of desperate parents begging officers to storm the school.