4th grade survivor of Texas school taking pictures describes gunman’s phrases earlier than opening fire

Survivors of the Texas elementary faculty shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie ultimate words of "Good night" and "You're all gonna die" earlier than opening fireplace, and how some performed lifeless to be spared within the spray of bullets.

Fourth grade scholar Miah Cerrillo, 11, informed 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 teachers in the eye and said, “Good evening” earlier than capturing her.

Miah informed her story by means of a CNN producer. She didn't want to communicate on digicam and declined to talk to any men following her experience with the school shooting and only felt comfy talking to women, the broadcaster stated. NBC Information could not instantly confirm 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 stated. She said she heard “sad music” enjoying, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

Miah said that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a pal’s blood on herself to look lifeless. She also mentioned she and a good friend grabbed their instructor’s phone and known as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send help as a result of we’re in bother.” 

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

A Robb Elementary trainer, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, instructed NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert employees of a lockdown, went off after photographs had been fired and children began to cover underneath their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a normal day until my instructor said we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was shooting in 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,” and then started to shoot. 

“He shot the teacher and then he shot the youngsters,” Samuel mentioned. 

He explained that he survived by taking part in dead after he got 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 played lifeless so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

When police finally entered the room and shot the gunman, the youngsters had been evacuated. Within the rushed exit, Samuel saw the our bodies of his teacher and other pupils.

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

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

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

In a information conference Thursday, Texas officers walked again previously launched information, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a faculty police officer and entered the varsity constructing unobstructed.

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

Officials shared a brand new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a vehicle near the school and shot at two people outdoors a funeral dwelling throughout the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers mentioned the first 911 name came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the school 10 minutes later and four minutes later police were on the scene. The primary officers on the scene called 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, mentioned Thursday.

Texas investigators advised NBC Information victims of the shooting have been found in 4 lecture rooms.

Robb Elementary serves second via fourth grade students in the small town of Uvalde, which is about 75 miles from the Mexico borders and home to a large Latino community.

Dad and mom and loved ones who were gathered exterior Robb Elementary during the taking pictures begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their children.

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

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

She mentioned 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 told NBC News in a statement 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 in the midst of the grief-stricken group that was gathering across the college."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.