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

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

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

She said the gunman looked at certainly one of her teachers within the eye and stated, “Good night time” before capturing her.

Miah instructed her story by means of a CNN producer. She did not wish to communicate on digital camera and declined to talk to any men following her expertise with the school capturing and only felt comfy speaking to ladies, the broadcaster mentioned. NBC Information couldn't 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 fire, Miah mentioned. She mentioned she heard “sad music” enjoying, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

Miah mentioned that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a friend’s blood on herself to look lifeless. She also said she and a buddy grabbed their trainer’s cellphone and known as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship help because we’re in bother.” 

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

A Robb Elementary trainer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert workers of a lockdown, went off after pictures have been fired and children began to hide below their desks in the class. 

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

“It was a standard day until my instructor stated we’re on extreme lockdown” and “then there was capturing in the home windows,” he stated in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Friday.

He mentioned that the gunman barged into the classroom, announced, “You’re all gonna die,” and then started to shoot. 

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

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

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

When police lastly entered the room and shot the gunman, the children have been evacuated. In the rushed exit, Samuel saw the bodies of his instructor and other pupils.

“There was blood on the bottom,” he mentioned. “And there have been kids ... stuffed with blood.” 

The investigation into the taking pictures is ongoing, and lots 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 news conference Thursday, Texas officials walked again previously released data, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a college police officer and entered the college building unobstructed.

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

Officials shared a brand new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a vehicle close to the school and shot at two folks exterior a funeral home throughout the road, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers stated the first 911 name got here in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the school 10 minutes later and four minutes later police had 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 Division of Public Safety, stated Thursday.

Texas investigators told NBC News victims of the taking pictures have been 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 group.

Parents and family members who were gathered outdoors Robb Elementary in the course of the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and shield their kids.

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

“The police were doing nothing,” she mentioned to the paper. “They have been simply standing exterior the fence. They weren’t entering into there or running anyplace.” 

She stated 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 lively investigation. 

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

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

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.