Uvalde shooting survivor Miah Cerrillo, 11, tells congressional committee about shooting

Miah Cerrillo and her fourth-grade classmates at Robb Elementary were gathered to watch a movie in their classroom, two days before summer vacation was scheduled to start in Uvalde.

During the movie, Miah said her teacher looked at an email and then walked over to the classroom’s door to turn the lock. As she looked out of the small window in the center of the door, Miah said her teacher made eye contact with a man in the hallway.

“She went back in the room and then she told us to go hide,” Miah, 11, said during a pre-recorded video that played during a hearing of the U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee on Wednesday about gun violence.

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Miah's testimony comes while she is still healing from bullet fragments lodged in her back and wrestling with the aftershock of trauma, according to her father, Miguel Cerrillo, who also spoke at Wednesday’s hearing.

Miah said she and her classmates scrambled to hide behind their teacher’s desk and a pile of backpacks in the room, as the man in the hallway fired his gun through the door’s window and entered the room, which was connected to a neighboring classroom by a door that he also opened.

Then, the man turned his gun on her teacher.

“He shot her in the head and then he shot some of my classmates,” Miah said.

Miah was huddled next to a friend near the backpacks in the classroom, and watched as the gunman shot her friend.

“I thought he was going to come back to the room, so I grabbed the blood and I put it all over me,” she said. “I just stayed quiet.”

When she saw an opportunity, Miah said she was able to grab her teacher’s phone and call 911.

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“I told her that we needed help,” Miah said. She was one of several students to call 911 and beg for help from inside the classroom where 19 children and two teachers were killed by the gunman.

An unnamed person posed questions to Miah during her pre-recorded video testimony, and asked the 11-year-old two questions that she answered without speaking.

“Do you feel safe at school?” the speaker asked. Miah shook her head no.

“Do you think it is going to happen again?” Miah nodded.

USA Today reporter Candy Woodall contributed to this report.

This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: Uvalde shooting survivor Miah Cerrillo shares story in House hearing