School shooting survivor covered herself in friend’s blood and played dead

A memorial site for the victims (Dario Lopez-Mills/AP)
A memorial site for the victims (Dario Lopez-Mills/AP)

A young survivor of the massacre at a Texas elementary school said she covered herself with a friend’s blood and pretended to be dead while she waited for help to arrive.

Miah Cerrillo, 11, told CNN that she and a friend called 911 from her dead teacher’s phone on Tuesday, and waited for what felt like, to her, three hours for officers to arrive at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde.

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