4th grade survivor of Texas faculty taking pictures describes gunman’s words before opening hearth

Survivors of the Texas elementary school shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie remaining phrases of "Good night" and "You are all gonna die" before opening fireplace, and how some played lifeless to be spared in the spray of bullets.

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

She said the gunman checked out one among her academics in the eye and mentioned, “Good night time” before shooting her.

Miah told her story by way of a CNN producer. She did not want to communicate on camera and declined to talk to any men following her experience with the varsity capturing and only felt comfortable speaking to ladies, the broadcaster said. NBC Information could not immediately confirm the account.

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

After firing shots in her classroom, the shooter went into the adjoining classroom and opened fireplace, Miah said. She mentioned she heard “unhappy music” playing, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

Miah mentioned that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a buddy’s blood on herself to look lifeless. She additionally stated she and a buddy grabbed their instructor’s phone and referred to as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send help as a result of we’re in bother.” 

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

A Robb Elementary trainer, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, advised NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert employees of a lockdown, went off after pictures had been fired and kids started to hide below their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a traditional day until my instructor stated we’re on extreme 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, introduced, “You’re all gonna die,” and then began to shoot. 

“He shot the instructor and then he shot the kids,” Samuel stated. 

He defined that he survived by playing useless after he acquired 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 useless so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

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

“There was blood on the bottom,” he said. “And there were children ... full of blood.” 

The investigation into the shooting is ongoing, and plenty of questions remain 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 information convention Thursday, Texas officials walked again 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 new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a automobile near the school and shot at two folks outside a funeral dwelling throughout the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

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

Texas investigators advised NBC Information victims of the capturing have been found in four school rooms.

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

Mother and father and family members who have been gathered outdoors Robb Elementary through the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their children.

Angeli Rose Gomez informed The Wall Road Journal she was handcuffed by U.S. marshals outside the college for repeatedly demanding police enter the college. 

“The police had been doing nothing,” she mentioned to the paper. “They were just standing outside the fence. They weren’t moving into there or working anywhere.” 

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

Marshals informed NBC Information in a statement 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 neighborhood that was gathering across the college."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.