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

Survivors of the Texas elementary faculty shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie final phrases of "Good night" and "You're all gonna die" before opening hearth, and the way some played dead to be spared in the spray of bullets.

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

She stated the gunman looked at certainly one of her academics within the eye and mentioned, “Good night time” before shooting her.

Miah told her story through a CNN producer. She did not need to speak on digicam and declined to speak to any males following her experience with the college taking pictures and only felt comfortable chatting with women, the broadcaster said. NBC Information could not immediately verify the account.

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

After firing photographs in her classroom, the shooter went into the adjoining classroom and opened hearth, Miah said. She stated she heard “unhappy music” enjoying, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

Miah mentioned that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a pal’s blood on herself to look lifeless. She also mentioned she and a friend grabbed their instructor’s phone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship assist because we’re in bother.” 

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

A Robb Elementary teacher, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, advised NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert staff of a lockdown, went off after pictures had been fired and kids started to hide under their desks in the class. 

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

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

He said that the gunman barged into the classroom, introduced, “You’re all gonna die,” after which began to shoot. 

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

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 said. “I played useless so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

When police lastly entered the room and shot the gunman, the youngsters were evacuated. In the rushed exit, Samuel saw the bodies of his trainer and other pupils.

“There was blood on the ground,” he mentioned. “And there were children ... filled with blood.” 

The investigation into the capturing is ongoing, and lots 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 information conference Thursday, Texas officers walked again previously released data, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a school police officer and entered the school constructing unobstructed.

Police now say it took over an hour from the first 911 name to cease the bloodbath.

Officers shared a new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a automobile close to the school and shot at two folks outside a funeral home throughout the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officials stated the first 911 name got here in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the college 10 minutes later and four minutes later police were on the scene. The first officers on the scene known 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 Security, said Thursday.

Texas investigators advised NBC News victims of the capturing had been found in four lecture rooms.

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

Dad and mom and family members who were gathered exterior Robb Elementary during the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their kids.

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

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

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

Marshals instructed NBC Information in a press release that deputy marshals “by no means arrested or placed anybody in handcuffs whereas securing the crime scene perimeter.”

“Our deputy marshals maintained order and peace in the midst of the grief-stricken group that was gathering around the faculty."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.