4th grade survivor of Texas school shooting describes gunman’s words earlier than opening hearth

Survivors of the Texas elementary faculty taking pictures are recounting the gunman's eerie ultimate phrases of "Good night" and "You are all gonna die" earlier than opening hearth, and the way some performed lifeless to be spared in the spray of bullets.

Fourth grade student Miah Cerrillo, 11, told 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 in all her lecturers in the eye and mentioned, “Good night time” before taking pictures her.

Miah told her story by a CNN producer. She didn't wish to converse on camera and declined to speak to any men following her expertise with the school capturing and solely felt snug speaking to ladies, the broadcaster said. NBC Information could not immediately verify the account.

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

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

When requested what the music was, she mentioned it appeared like, “I want people to die music.”

Miah stated that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a buddy’s blood on herself to look lifeless. She additionally said she and a friend grabbed their trainer’s telephone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send assist because we’re in hassle.” 

In the Tuesday horror, 19 children and two lecturers were killed, and one other 17 have been wounded.

A Robb Elementary trainer, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, instructed NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert workers of a lockdown, went off after photographs have been fired and kids began to hide below their desks in the class. 

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

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

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

“He shot the teacher after which he shot the youngsters,” Samuel stated. 

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

“I think he was aiming at me,” Samuel mentioned. “I played useless so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

When police finally entered the room and shot the gunman, the kids were evacuated. Within the rushed exit, Samuel saw the bodies of his teacher and other pupils.

“There was blood on the bottom,” he stated. “And there have been kids ... stuffed with blood.” 

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

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

In a news conference Thursday, Texas officials walked back previously released information, 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 call to cease the massacre.

Officers shared a brand new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a car close to the school and shot at two people exterior a funeral dwelling throughout the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers said the first 911 name came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the college 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police had been on the scene. The primary officers on the scene called for backup, however tactical teams didn’t arrive until about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Department of Public Safety, said Thursday.

Texas investigators told NBC News victims of the shooting were present in 4 lecture rooms.

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

Parents and loved ones who were gathered exterior Robb Elementary through the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their children.

Angeli Rose Gomez instructed The Wall Avenue Journal she was handcuffed by U.S. marshals outdoors the school for repeatedly demanding police enter the college. 

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

She stated at first she waited patiently then when she turned more fervent with her pleas, U.S. marshals allegedly arrested her for intervening in an energetic investigation. 

Marshals told NBC Information in an announcement that deputy marshals “by no means arrested or placed anyone in handcuffs whereas securing the crime scene perimeter.”

“Our deputy marshals maintained order and peace within the midst of the grief-stricken community that was gathering around the school."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.