Texas School Shooting Survivors Talk Dead and Playing-E!online

For Mia CerilloA momentary choice may have saved her life in a horrific tragedy.

An 11-year-old student at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, recalled the morning of May 24, when an 18-year-old shooter fired in the classroom.

Mia told CNN that the shooter killed the teacher after targeting the fourth grade class. Irma Garcia When Eva Millerez, And many of her friends — he moved to an adjacent classroom. While Mia was next to her, she and her friend managed to grab the teacher’s cell phone and call 911 and said to her coordinator, “Come … we’re in trouble.” She said.

Fearing that he would come back, Mia said she took blood from her murdered classmate and rubbed it herself to play dead.

The elementary school student remembered feeling like lying on the floor for hours, assuming the police hadn’t responded to the shooting yet. When Mia was finally rescued, she was taken to the hospital to treat a wound of bullet debris, according to CNN.