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

Survivors of the Texas elementary school shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie remaining words of "Good night" and "You're all gonna die" earlier than opening hearth, and how some performed useless to be spared within the spray of bullets.

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

She mentioned the gunman checked out one in every of her lecturers in the eye and stated, “Good night” earlier than taking pictures her.

Miah told her story through a CNN producer. She did not wish to converse on digicam and declined to speak to any men following her experience with the college capturing and only felt comfy speaking to women, the broadcaster stated. NBC Information couldn't instantly confirm the account.

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

After firing photographs in her classroom, the shooter went into the adjoining classroom and opened hearth, Miah mentioned. She said she heard “unhappy music” playing, believing the gunman put it on. 

When requested what the music was, she stated it seemed like, “I need people to die music.”

Miah said that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a buddy’s blood on herself to look useless. She additionally mentioned she and a good friend grabbed their teacher’s cellphone and known as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship assist because we’re in hassle.” 

In the Tuesday horror, 19 kids and two teachers were killed, and another 17 had been wounded.

A Robb Elementary teacher, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, informed NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert workers of a lockdown, went off after photographs have been fired and youngsters started to cover beneath their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a normal day until my teacher stated we’re on extreme lockdown” and “then there was shooting in the home windows,” he mentioned in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Friday.

He mentioned that the gunman barged into the classroom, introduced, “You’re all gonna die,” after which started to shoot. 

“He shot the teacher and then he shot the children,” Samuel mentioned. 

He explained that he survived by taking part in useless after he acquired hit in the leg with shrapnel that hit a chair between him and the shooter.

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

When police lastly entered the room and shot the gunman, the youngsters were evacuated. In the rushed exit, Samuel noticed the bodies of his trainer and other pupils.

“There was blood on the bottom,” he mentioned. “And there were children ... full of blood.” 

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

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

In a news conference Thursday, Texas officials walked back previously launched info, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a school police officer and entered the school constructing unobstructed.

Police now say it took over an hour from the primary 911 name to stop the bloodbath.

Officials shared a new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a automobile near the college and shot at two folks outdoors a funeral home throughout the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officials said the first 911 call came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the school 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police have been on the scene. The first officers on the scene referred to as for backup, but tactical teams didn’t arrive until about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Department of Public Security, mentioned Thursday.

Texas investigators informed NBC News victims of the capturing have been found in four classrooms.

Robb Elementary serves second by fourth grade students in the small town of Uvalde, which is about 75 miles from the Mexico borders and residential to a large Latino neighborhood.

Dad and mom and loved ones who were gathered outdoors Robb Elementary throughout the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their children.

Angeli Rose Gomez told The Wall Road Journal she was handcuffed by U.S. marshals outside the varsity for repeatedly demanding police enter the school. 

“The police have been doing nothing,” she said to the paper. “They have been simply standing outdoors the fence. They weren’t stepping into there or running anywhere.” 

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

Marshals informed NBC News in an announcement that deputy marshals “never arrested or placed anyone in handcuffs whereas securing the crime scene perimeter.”

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

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.