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Uvalde fourth grader who survived shooting tells story to Congress, father says schools 'not safe anymore'

Miah Cerrillo's classmates and a teacher were shot in front of her

Miah Cerrillo, a fourth grader at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, told the House Oversight Committee about her experience, in which she saw a shooter kill her classmates and a teacher.

In pre-recorded video testimony, Cerrillo recalled how she hid while the shooter, identified by authorities as Salvador Ramos, "shot my teacher, and told my teacher goodnight, and shot her in the head."

Cerrillo, 11, described how she saw the shooter open fire on her classmates and a whiteboard, and what she did to protect herself after he left the room.

"I thought he was going to come back to the room so I grabbed the blood and put it all over me," she said.

Cerrillo said she then remained quiet, took her teacher's phone, and called 911.

In the video, Cerrillo's father asked if there was anything she wanted now that this has happened, to which she replied, "To have security."

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