4th grade survivor of Texas college taking pictures describes gunman’s words earlier than opening fireplace

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

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

She stated the gunman looked at one in all her teachers in the eye and mentioned, “Good night” earlier than shooting her.

Miah advised her story via a CNN producer. She didn't wish to converse on digicam and declined to talk to any males following her experience with the varsity shooting and only felt snug talking to women, the broadcaster stated. NBC News could not immediately 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 mentioned. She mentioned she heard “unhappy music” taking part in, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

Miah stated that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a friend’s blood on herself to look dead. She additionally mentioned she and a good friend grabbed their trainer’s telephone and referred to as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send help as a result of we’re in trouble.” 

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 staff of a lockdown, went off after shots had been fired and youngsters started to cover underneath their desks in the class. 

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

“It was a standard day until my instructor stated we’re on extreme lockdown” and “then there was taking pictures 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,” after which began to shoot. 

“He shot the instructor after which he shot the children,” Samuel mentioned. 

He explained that he survived by enjoying dead 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 stated. “I performed dead so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

When police finally entered the room and shot the gunman, the youngsters had been evacuated. In the rushed exit, Samuel noticed the bodies of his instructor and other pupils.

“There was blood on the bottom,” he mentioned. “And there have been children ... filled with 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 beforehand released info, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a faculty police officer and entered the college building unobstructed.

Police now say it took over an hour from the first 911 call to stop the massacre.

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

Officials stated 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 called for backup, however tactical groups didn’t arrive till about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Department of Public Security, stated Thursday.

Texas investigators informed NBC Information victims of the taking pictures were present in four school rooms.

Robb Elementary serves second by way of 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 community.

Dad and mom and family members who have been gathered outdoors Robb Elementary throughout the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their children.

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

“The police have been doing nothing,” she mentioned to the paper. “They were just standing exterior the fence. They weren’t going in there or working anywhere.” 

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

Marshals informed NBC Information 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 within the midst of the grief-stricken group that was gathering around the school."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.