‘To some, guns are more important than children’: families testify at House hearing – as it happened

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In recorded testimony, fourth-grader Miah Cerrillo described how the Uvalde killer shot her teacher in the head then opened fire on her classmates, including a friend right next to her.

I thought he was gonna come back into the room, so I grabbed the blood and I put it all over me," Cerillo said in a recorded video. Speaking with little emotion, Cerillo, described how she grabbed her teacher's phone and called 911. An unidentified voice on the video then asked Cerillo if she felt safe at school, to which she responded by shaking her head. When asked if she thinks such a shooting could happen again, she nodded.