4th grade survivor of Texas college shooting describes gunman’s phrases earlier than opening fireplace

Survivors of the Texas elementary school taking pictures are recounting the gunman's eerie ultimate phrases of "Good night" and "You are all gonna die" before opening fire, and how some performed useless to be spared within the spray of bullets.

Fourth grade student Miah Cerrillo, 11, instructed CNN her class was watching “Lilo and Stitch” when the shooter appeared Tuesday at Robb Elementary in Uvalde.

She stated the gunman looked at one among her academics in the eye and mentioned, “Good night time” earlier than taking pictures her.

Miah advised her story by means of a CNN producer. She didn't wish to speak on digicam and declined to speak to any men following her expertise with the college taking pictures and solely felt comfortable talking to women, the broadcaster said. NBC News could not instantly confirm the account.

Miah herself was hit by fragments within the hail of bullets, CNN reported.

After firing pictures in her classroom, the shooter went into the adjoining classroom and opened fireplace, Miah said. She said she heard “unhappy music” taking part in, believing the gunman put it on. 

When asked what the music was, she said it sounded like, “I need individuals to die music.”

Miah mentioned that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a friend’s blood on herself to look lifeless. She also mentioned she and a friend grabbed their teacher’s phone and known as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send assist as a result of we’re in hassle.” 

Within the Tuesday horror, 19 children and two academics had been killed, and one other 17 were wounded.

A Robb Elementary trainer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, advised NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert staff of a lockdown, went off after pictures had been fired and youngsters started to hide underneath their desks within the class. 

Samuel Salinas, 10, was a student in trainer Irma Garcia’s class on Tuesday when the college taking pictures unfolded.

“It was a standard day till my teacher said we’re on extreme lockdown” and “then there was capturing in the home windows,” he said in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Friday.

He stated that the gunman barged into the classroom, introduced, “You’re all gonna die,” and then began to shoot. 

“He shot the teacher and then he shot the kids,” Samuel said. 

He defined that he survived by taking part in dead after he received hit within the leg with shrapnel that hit a chair between him and the shooter.

“I feel he was aiming at me,” Samuel stated. “I performed dead so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

When police lastly entered the room and shot the gunman, the kids were evacuated. Within the rushed exit, Samuel saw the bodies of his instructor and different pupils.

“There was blood on the bottom,” he stated. “And there have been youngsters ... full of blood.” 

The investigation into the capturing is ongoing, and plenty of questions remain as to why it took police so long to take out the gunman.

The shooter, Salvador Ramos, 18, was killed at the scene.

In a news conference Thursday, Texas officers walked back previously launched information, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a faculty police officer and entered the school building unobstructed.

Police now say it took over an hour from the first 911 name to cease the bloodbath.

Officers shared a brand new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a automobile close to the school and shot at two people outdoors a funeral residence across the road, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers said the first 911 call got here in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the college 10 minutes later and four minutes later police had been on the scene. The primary officers on the scene known as for backup, but tactical groups didn’t arrive until about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Division of Public Security, mentioned Thursday.

Texas investigators informed NBC Information victims of the shooting had been found in four lecture rooms.

Robb Elementary serves second through fourth grade college students within the small city of Uvalde, which is about 75 miles from the Mexico borders and home to a big Latino neighborhood.

Mother and father and family members who were gathered outdoors Robb Elementary through the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their children.

Angeli Rose Gomez instructed The Wall Street Journal she was handcuffed by U.S. marshals exterior the varsity for repeatedly demanding police enter the college. 

“The police have been doing nothing,” she said to the paper. “They had been simply standing outside the fence. They weren’t getting into there or operating anywhere.” 

She mentioned at first she waited patiently then when she became more fervent along with her pleas, U.S. marshals allegedly arrested her for intervening in an active investigation. 

Marshals told NBC Information in a statement that deputy marshals “by no means arrested or positioned anyone in handcuffs while securing the crime scene perimeter.”

“Our deputy marshals maintained order and peace in the midst of the grief-stricken community that was gathering across the faculty."

Marlene Lenthang is a breaking information reporter for NBC News Digital.

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.