Texas school shooting: ‘I took the blood, put it over me . . . and stayed quiet’

A schoolgirl who survived a massacre in a Texas classroom told politicians on Capitol Hill yesterday how she played dead by smearing herself with her dead friend’s blood

Miah Cerrillo, 11, a pupil at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, said she hid behind a desk as a gunman burst in on May 24 and their teacher told the children: “Go hide.”, 18, looked the teacher in the eye, bid her “goodnight” and shot her dead.

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