4th grade survivor of Texas school shooting describes gunman’s words before opening fire

Survivors of the Texas elementary college capturing are recounting the gunman's eerie ultimate words of "Good night time" and "You are all gonna die" earlier than opening fire, and how some performed lifeless to be spared in the spray of bullets.

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

She stated the gunman checked out one in every of her teachers in the eye and mentioned, “Good night time” earlier than shooting her.

Miah told her story through a CNN producer. She did not want to communicate on digicam and declined to talk to any men following her expertise with the school capturing and solely felt snug chatting with ladies, the broadcaster stated. NBC Information couldn't instantly confirm 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 mentioned she heard “sad music” playing, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

Miah stated that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a pal’s blood on herself to look useless. She also mentioned she and a good friend grabbed their instructor’s telephone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send assist as a result of we’re in hassle.” 

In the Tuesday horror, 19 youngsters and two lecturers had been killed, and another 17 have been wounded.

A Robb Elementary instructor, 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 pictures had been fired and kids started to cover below their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a traditional day until my instructor stated we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was shooting in the home windows,” he stated 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 started to shoot. 

“He shot the teacher after which he shot the kids,” Samuel said. 

He defined that he survived by playing lifeless after he obtained hit within the leg with shrapnel that hit a chair between him and the shooter.

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

When police lastly entered the room and shot the gunman, the youngsters have been evacuated. Within the rushed exit, Samuel noticed the bodies of his instructor and other pupils.

“There was blood on the ground,” he stated. “And there were kids ... full of blood.” 

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

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

In a information convention Thursday, Texas officials walked again previously launched information, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a school police officer and entered the college constructing unobstructed.

Police now say it took over an hour from the primary 911 call to cease the massacre.

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 outside a funeral residence across the road, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers said the primary 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, but tactical teams didn’t arrive till about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Department of Public Safety, stated Thursday.

Texas investigators informed NBC Information victims of the taking pictures had been found in 4 school rooms.

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

Mother and father and loved ones who had been gathered outside Robb Elementary in the course of the taking pictures begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their kids.

Angeli Rose Gomez instructed The Wall Street 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 simply standing outside the fence. They weren’t getting into there or working anyplace.” 

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

Marshals told 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 across the college."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.