A fourth-grader who survived final month’s college capturing in Uvalde, Texas, by smearing herself in her friend’s blood and pretending to be useless will likely be amongst these testifying earlier than Congress subsequent week in a listening to on the nation’s gun violence epidemic.
Miah Cerrillo, 11, is slated to seem earlier than the Home Committee on Oversight and Reform on Wednesday, together with different members of the family personally affected by the current mass shootings at Robb Elementary College in Uvalde and in a grocery store in Buffalo, New York.
Different folks set to testify embrace Felix and Kimberly Rubio, the mother and father of Lexi Rubio, who was one of many 19 kids killed in Uvalde; Roy Guerrero, a pediatrician who handled victims within the Uvalde capturing; and Zeneta Everhart, the mom of a Buffalo capturing survivor.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), the chair of the committee, stated in an announcement that there have already been more than 200 mass shootings this 12 months.
“After 19 harmless kids and two academics misplaced their lives in Texas simply ten days after the mass capturing in my dwelling state of New York, I’m turning my anger into motion,” Maloney stated. “Our listening to will look at the horrible influence of gun violence and the pressing must rein within the weapons of battle used to perpetrate these crimes. It’s my hope that every one my colleagues will pay attention with an open coronary heart as gun violence survivors and family members recount one of many darkest days of their lives.”
She added, “This listening to is finally about saving lives, and I hope it is going to impress my colleagues on either side of the aisle to go laws to just do that.”
The committee listening to is about for Wednesday at 10 a.m.
