4th grade survivor of Texas college taking pictures describes gunman’s words before opening fire

Survivors of the Texas elementary college shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie final words of "Good night time" and "You're all gonna die" before opening hearth, and the way some played lifeless to be spared within the spray of bullets.

Fourth grade scholar 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 stated, “Good evening” before taking pictures her.

Miah instructed her story by a CNN producer. She didn't wish to converse on digicam and declined to talk to any men following her experience with the varsity capturing and solely felt comfy speaking to ladies, the broadcaster said. NBC Information couldn't instantly verify the account.

Miah herself was hit by fragments within 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 stated she heard “unhappy music” playing, believing the gunman put it on. 

When asked what the music was, she mentioned it appeared like, “I need individuals to die music.”

Miah mentioned that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a buddy’s blood on herself to look useless. She additionally said she and a pal grabbed their teacher’s cellphone and known as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship help as a result of we’re in hassle.” 

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

A Robb Elementary trainer, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, told NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert employees of a lockdown, went off after photographs had been fired and youngsters started to cover beneath their desks in the class. 

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

“It was a traditional day until my instructor said 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 said that the gunman barged into the classroom, announced, “You’re all gonna die,” after which began to shoot. 

“He shot the instructor after which he shot the youngsters,” Samuel mentioned. 

He defined that he survived by enjoying 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 mentioned. “I performed lifeless so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

When police finally entered the room and shot the gunman, the kids were evacuated. Within the rushed exit, Samuel noticed the bodies of his teacher and different pupils.

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

The investigation into the taking pictures is ongoing, and plenty of questions stay 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 beforehand launched information, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a faculty police officer and entered the varsity building unobstructed.

Police now say it took over an hour from the first 911 call to stop the massacre.

Officials shared a brand new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a vehicle close to the college and shot at two people outside a funeral residence across the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officials said the primary 911 call got here in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the school 10 minutes later and four minutes later police have been on the scene. The first officers on the scene known as for backup, but tactical teams didn’t arrive until about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Division of Public Safety, mentioned Thursday.

Texas investigators informed NBC Information victims of the taking pictures were present in four school 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.

Parents and family members who had been gathered exterior Robb Elementary throughout the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their youngsters.

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

“The police were doing nothing,” she stated to the paper. “They have been just standing outdoors the fence. They weren’t moving into there or working wherever.” 

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

Marshals informed NBC Information in a statement that deputy marshals “never arrested or placed anybody 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 around the school."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.