On May 24, 19 young children and two teachers were brutally shot and killed after 18-year-old Salvador Ramos entered a Robb Elementary elementary school with a semi-automatic rifle.
These days, a hearing is taking place in Congress where several survivors and survivors are telling their stories to American politicians.
The goal is to influence politicians to change gun laws in the United States.
Among the testimonies that made the strongest impression was the story of 11-year-old Miah Cerrillo.
“Good night”
The 11-year-old and the rest of the class were watching the movie “Lilo & Stitch” when the two teachers Eva Mireles and Irma Garcia received an e-mail about locking the door, because an active shooter had entered the school grounds.
But the teacher never managed to lock the door.
The shooter entered the classroom, made eye contact with the teacher and said “good night”, before he shot her, Cerrillo has previously told CNN.
After shooting the two teachers, the perpetrator attacked the 11-year-old’s classmates.
– Please come
The bullets hailed, but the 11-year-old and a couple of others in the classroom escaped. They eventually managed to get hold of their dead teacher’s phone and called the police.
“Please come, we’re in trouble,” she told police.
– CRYING OF CRY: Miah Cerrillo’s father wiped his tears when his daughter testified in Congress. Photo: Jason Andrew / Ap / NTB
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Fearing that the perpetrator would return, the 11-year-old dipped his hands in the blood of his dead friends who lay next to her.
She then smeared the blood on herself to play dead, Cerillo said in a video that was played during the hearing.
– Do not feel safe
When asked what she wants to happen now, the little girl answers that she wants security at school.
– I do not feel safe. I do not want this to happen again, she says.
The 11-year-old’s father Miguel Cerrillo was present in the Senate on Wednesday.
– She’s not feeling well. We take it day by day, says the father USA Today.
Felix Rubio and Kimberly Mata-Rubio also testified. They lost their ten-year-old daughter Lexi.
– Will haunt me
Just a few hours before the massacres, the parents had been at school and seen their daughter receive an award after receiving an “A” in all subjects.
Before leaving school, her parents promised to eat ice cream when she finished celebrating.
However, they never got it done.
“I left my daughter at school that day, and that decision will haunt me for the rest of my life,” said Mata-Rubio, choking on tears in her testimony, according to CNN.
The parents had a clear message for the politicians.
– We do not want you to think of Lexi only as a number. She was smart, compassionate and athletic. She was quiet and shy, unless she had a point to make. When she knew she was right, as she often was, she stood her ground, her mother said.
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