4th grade survivor of Texas school taking pictures describes gunman’s phrases before opening fireplace

Survivors of the Texas elementary faculty taking pictures are recounting the gunman's eerie last words of "Good night time" and "You are all gonna die" before opening hearth, and how some played lifeless to be spared in 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 one in every of her teachers in the eye and mentioned, “Good evening” before shooting her.

Miah told her story by way of a CNN producer. She didn't wish to speak on digital camera and declined to speak to any males following her expertise with the varsity taking pictures and only felt comfy speaking to women, the broadcaster said. NBC Information couldn't instantly confirm 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 fireplace, Miah stated. She said she heard “unhappy music” playing, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

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

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

A Robb Elementary instructor, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, informed NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert employees of a lockdown, went off after shots have been fired and kids started to cover under their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a normal day until my teacher stated we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was capturing within the 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,” after which began to shoot. 

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

He defined that he survived by enjoying dead after he acquired hit within the leg with shrapnel that hit a chair between him and the shooter.

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

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

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

The investigation into the shooting is ongoing, and plenty of questions remain 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 news convention Thursday, Texas officers walked back previously launched information, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a school police officer and entered the varsity constructing unobstructed.

Police now say it took over an hour from the primary 911 call to stop the bloodbath.

Officials shared a new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a car near the varsity and shot at two individuals exterior a funeral dwelling across the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officials said the primary 911 name got here 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 referred to as for backup, but tactical groups didn’t arrive till about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Division of Public Security, said Thursday.

Texas investigators told NBC News victims of the shooting have been present in four school rooms.

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

Mother and father and family members who had been gathered exterior Robb Elementary during the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and shield their children.

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

“The police had been doing nothing,” she mentioned to the paper. “They have been simply standing outdoors the fence. They weren’t entering into there or operating wherever.” 

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

Marshals told NBC Information in a press release 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 neighborhood that was gathering across the faculty."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.