Fourth grade survivor of Uvalde shooting tells Congress: ‘I don’t want it to happen again’

By: and - June 8, 2022 4:15 pm

Miah Cerrillo, a survivor of the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas testifies remotely during the House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing with victims’ family members and survivors of the Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, massacres on June 8, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (Jason Andrew-Pool/Getty Images)

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Ariana Figueroa
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