AVAILD - (AFP) - An 11-year-old survivor of the horrific massacre in an elementary school in Texas revealed that she smeared herself with the blood of a murdered classmate, trying to escape from the shooter.

Mia Cirillo, who lost the ability to speak to men after the massacre, agreed to interview a CNN correspondent off camera, telling her that she used her dead teacher's phone to call for help, while the killer was killing children at her school in a rural Texas area.

This is the first testimony of a surviving student from inside Rob Elementary School in Yuvaldi, in which Salvador Ramos carried out his mass crime that claimed the lives of 19 boys and girls and two teachers, in one of the worst shootings in the United States.

Mia, who suffers from hair loss after the massacre, recounted that Ramos exchanged glances with one of the teachers as he made his way to her classroom.
After that he said "good night" and finished off the teacher with his semi-automatic rifle, then pointed the gun at the second teacher and several of Mia's classmates and started shooting and killing them.

Ramos later moved to another classroom, shooting the terrified children, Mia told CNN.

Mia added that she and a colleague searched for her victim's teacher's phone and called the police, saying, "Please come." But her fear of the killer's return prompted her to smear herself with the blood of a murdered colleague in order to camouflage herself, while she was lying on the ground for a period of what she described as hours before help arrived.

Mia's mother, Abigail Fellowes, launched a page on the "Go Fund Me" website to collect donations for her daughter, who suffered head and shoulder injuries, in order to pay for her physical and psychological treatment after the massacre.

Fellowes wrote on the page that her daughter's classroom was "one of the primary rooms targeted by the shooter," adding that Mia "will need a lot of help due to the trauma she is going through."

The page had raised more than $270,000 as of Friday afternoon, although the target was set at $10,000.