4th grade survivor of Texas school capturing describes gunman’s phrases before opening hearth

Survivors of the Texas elementary college taking pictures are recounting the gunman's eerie final phrases of "Good night" and "You are all gonna die" before opening hearth, 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 said the gunman checked out certainly one of her lecturers in the eye and mentioned, “Good night” earlier than taking pictures her.

Miah informed her story by way of a CNN producer. She didn't need to communicate on camera and declined to speak to any men following her expertise with the school taking pictures and only felt comfy speaking to ladies, the broadcaster stated. NBC News 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 stated. She mentioned she heard “sad music” playing, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

Miah stated that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a buddy’s blood on herself to look lifeless. She also said she and a pal grabbed their teacher’s phone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship assist as a result of we’re in trouble.” 

In the Tuesday horror, 19 youngsters and two academics had been killed, and one other 17 have been wounded.

A Robb Elementary teacher, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, advised NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert workers of a lockdown, went off after shots had been fired and kids started to cover below their desks within the class. 

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

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

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

“He shot the instructor after which he shot the kids,” Samuel stated. 

He defined that he survived by playing dead after he got 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 performed dead so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

When police lastly entered the room and shot the gunman, the children were evacuated. In the rushed exit, Samuel saw the our bodies of his trainer and different pupils.

“There was blood on the bottom,” he stated. “And there were children ... stuffed with blood.” 

The investigation into the taking pictures 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 launched information, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a school police officer and entered the varsity constructing unobstructed.

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

Officials shared a new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a car close to the school and shot at two folks exterior a funeral residence throughout the road, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

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

Texas investigators informed NBC Information victims of the taking pictures were present in 4 lecture rooms.

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 big Latino group.

Parents and loved ones who have been gathered exterior Robb Elementary through the taking pictures begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their youngsters.

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

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

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

Marshals told NBC News in an announcement that deputy marshals “never arrested or positioned anybody 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 across the school."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.