Aunt – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Value

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

Miah Cerrillo's aunt and godmother said the 4th grader is struggling to manage and telling them what she witnessed through the taking pictures.

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

Rivera mentioned Miah's teacher, Irma Garcia, was one of many two teachers killed. Her friends and classmates had been additionally focused.

Rivera said that is when Miah went into survival mode.

"Miah acquired some blood and put it on herself so she could pretend she was lifeless," stated Rivera. "It's too much for me to play that scene time and again, but that's what my sister-in-law mentioned is that she saw her friend stuffed with blood and he or she acquired blood and put it on herself."

Miah was injured however 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 family is rallying round Miah to assist her get well physically, emotionally and spiritually.

"At this point, we simply have to hope and ask God to assist us transfer forward through this situation, I know it is traumatizing as it is," mentioned Rivera.

Almost everybody in the town of Uvalde has been touched by the lack of someone within the mass capturing at Robb Elementary Faculty, residents are supporting one another as they begin coping with the tragedy.