Aunt – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Price

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 lifeless after the gunman entered her classroom.

Miah Cerrillo's aunt and godmother mentioned the 4th grader is struggling to manage and telling them what she witnessed throughout the capturing.

"Around midnight my sister-in-law known as me and she was simply crying, like 'I feel it simply hit Miah. I believe all the things got here to reality now,'" stated Blanca Rivera.

Rivera said Miah's trainer, Irma Garcia, was one of many two academics killed. Her buddies and classmates had been also targeted.

Rivera said that's when Miah went into survival mode.

"Miah bought some blood and put it on herself so she might fake she was dead," said Rivera. "It's too much for me to play that scene over and over, but that is what my sister-in-law stated is that she saw her friend full of blood and she obtained blood and put it on herself."

Miah was injured however taken to the hospital and has been released.

"My brother said she had bullet fragments in her again," mentioned Rivera.

Rivera, a mother of three, mentioned the family is rallying round Miah to help her get better physically, emotionally and spiritually.

"At this level, we simply have to pray and ask God to assist us move forward through this case, I do know it is traumatizing as it's," stated Rivera.

Nearly everybody within the city of Uvalde has been touched by the loss of somebody within the mass capturing at Robb Elementary College, residents are supporting one another as they start coping with the tragedy.