4th grade survivor of Texas faculty capturing describes gunman’s words earlier than opening fire

Survivors of the Texas elementary school shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie final phrases of "Good night" and "You are all gonna die" earlier than opening fire, and how some performed dead to be spared in the spray of bullets.

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

She stated the gunman checked out considered one of her teachers within the eye and mentioned, “Good night” before shooting her.

Miah informed her story by a CNN producer. She did not need to converse on digicam and declined to speak to any men following her experience with the school taking pictures and solely felt comfy chatting with ladies, the broadcaster stated. NBC News could not immediately verify the account.

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

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

When asked what the music was, she said it appeared like, “I want folks to die music.”

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

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

A Robb Elementary instructor, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, advised NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert employees of a lockdown, went off after photographs have been fired and children began to hide underneath their desks in the class. 

Samuel Salinas, 10, was a pupil in instructor Irma Garcia’s class on Tuesday when the school shooting unfolded.

“It was a normal day until my trainer mentioned we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was shooting in the home windows,” he mentioned 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 trainer and then he shot the youngsters,” Samuel said. 

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

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

When police lastly entered the room and shot the gunman, the kids had been evacuated. Within the rushed exit, Samuel noticed the bodies of his teacher and other pupils.

“There was blood on the bottom,” he mentioned. “And there were kids ... 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 on the scene.

In a news conference Thursday, Texas officers walked back beforehand launched info, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a faculty police officer and entered the college constructing unobstructed.

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

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

Officials mentioned the primary 911 name got here in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the college 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police have been on the scene. The primary officers on the scene known as for backup, however tactical groups didn’t arrive till about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Division of Public Safety, stated Thursday.

Texas investigators instructed NBC News victims of the capturing had been found in four classrooms.

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

Dad and mom and loved ones who have been gathered outside Robb Elementary through the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their youngsters.

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

“The police were doing nothing,” she stated to the paper. “They had been simply standing exterior the fence. They weren’t getting into there or working wherever.” 

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

Marshals told NBC News in a press release 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 group that was gathering around the college."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.