4th grade survivor of Texas college capturing describes gunman’s phrases before opening fireplace

Survivors of the Texas elementary school taking pictures are recounting the gunman's eerie ultimate words of "Good night time" and "You're all gonna die" before opening hearth, and how some performed lifeless to be spared within the spray of bullets.

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

She stated the gunman looked at considered one of her teachers within the eye and mentioned, “Good evening” earlier than taking pictures her.

Miah told her story by a CNN producer. She did not want to communicate on camera and declined to talk to any males following her experience with the school capturing and only felt comfortable chatting with girls, the broadcaster said. NBC News couldn't instantly confirm 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 fire, Miah said. She said she heard “unhappy music” playing, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

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

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

A Robb Elementary trainer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, instructed NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert staff of a lockdown, went off after shots were fired and children started to hide below their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a standard day till my instructor said we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was shooting within the windows,” he stated in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Friday.

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

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

He defined that he survived by taking part in dead after he bought 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 dead 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 ground,” he mentioned. “And there have been youngsters ... stuffed with blood.” 

The investigation into the shooting 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 officials walked back previously released data, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a college police officer and entered the varsity constructing unobstructed.

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

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

Officers mentioned the primary 911 name got here in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the school 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police have been on the scene. The first officers on the scene referred to as for backup, but tactical groups didn’t arrive until about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Division of Public Safety, stated Thursday.

Texas investigators instructed NBC News victims of the capturing have been found in four classrooms.

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

Parents and family members who have been gathered outside Robb Elementary throughout the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their kids.

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

“The police have been doing nothing,” she mentioned to the paper. “They were simply standing outside the fence. They weren’t getting in there or running wherever.” 

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

Marshals advised NBC News in a statement that deputy marshals “by no means arrested or positioned anybody in handcuffs whereas securing the crime scene perimeter.”

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

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.