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

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

Fourth grade pupil 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 looked at considered one of her lecturers within the eye and stated, “Good evening” before taking pictures her.

Miah instructed her story via a CNN producer. She did not wish to converse on digital camera and declined to speak to any men following her expertise with the school capturing and only felt comfy speaking to women, the broadcaster mentioned. NBC News could not instantly verify the account.

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

After firing photographs 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 asked what the music was, she stated it appeared like, “I would like folks to die music.”

Miah stated that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a friend’s blood on herself to look useless. She also said she and a friend grabbed their teacher’s phone and referred to as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send help because we’re in trouble.” 

Within the Tuesday horror, 19 children and two teachers had been killed, and one other 17 were wounded.

A Robb Elementary instructor, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, advised NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert workers of a lockdown, went off after photographs have been fired and youngsters started to cover below 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 standard day until my teacher said we’re on extreme lockdown” and “then there was shooting within the windows,” he said 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,” after which started to shoot. 

“He shot the trainer after which he shot the children,” Samuel said. 

He explained that he survived by enjoying lifeless after he received hit in the leg with shrapnel that hit a chair between him and the shooter.

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

When police lastly entered the room and shot the gunman, the kids have been evacuated. In the rushed exit, Samuel noticed the bodies of his trainer and other pupils.

“There was blood on the bottom,” he said. “And there were kids ... filled with blood.” 

The investigation into the shooting is ongoing, and lots of 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 information conference Thursday, Texas officials walked again previously launched information, 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 first 911 name to cease the bloodbath.

Officials shared a new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a automobile near the college and shot at two folks outdoors a funeral residence throughout the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers mentioned the first 911 call got here 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 referred to as for backup, however 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 instructed NBC News victims of the capturing were present in four classrooms.

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

Dad and mom and loved ones who had been gathered exterior Robb Elementary in the course of the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their youngsters.

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

“The police have been doing nothing,” she mentioned to the paper. “They had been just standing outdoors the fence. They weren’t getting into there or working anyplace.” 

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

Marshals informed NBC News in a press release that deputy marshals “by no means arrested or positioned anyone in handcuffs while securing the crime scene perimeter.”

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

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.