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

Survivors of the Texas elementary faculty shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie ultimate phrases of "Good night time" and "You're all gonna die" before opening fireplace, and how some played lifeless to be spared in the spray of bullets.

Fourth grade scholar 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 checked out one in every of her lecturers in the eye and said, “Good night” earlier than capturing her.

Miah advised her story by way of a CNN producer. She did not need to converse on camera and declined to speak to any males following her expertise with the school taking pictures and solely felt comfy talking to women, the broadcaster said. NBC News could not immediately 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 hearth, Miah said. She said she heard “sad music” taking part in, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

Miah mentioned that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a buddy’s blood on herself to look dead. She additionally mentioned she and a friend grabbed their trainer’s phone and referred to as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship help because we’re in bother.” 

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

A Robb Elementary teacher, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert workers of a lockdown, went off after shots have been fired and children started to hide below their desks in the class. 

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

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

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

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

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

“I believe he was aiming at me,” Samuel mentioned. “I played dead so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

When police finally entered the room and shot the gunman, the kids had been evacuated. In the rushed exit, Samuel noticed the bodies of his trainer and different pupils.

“There was blood on the ground,” he mentioned. “And there were kids ... full of blood.” 

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

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

In a news convention Thursday, Texas officials walked again beforehand launched info, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a college police officer and entered the school constructing unobstructed.

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

Officers shared a 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 across the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers said the first 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 primary officers on the scene known 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 Security, stated Thursday.

Texas investigators advised NBC News victims of the taking pictures were present in four lecture rooms.

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

Dad and mom and loved ones who have been gathered outdoors Robb Elementary during the taking pictures begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their kids.

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

“The police have been doing nothing,” she said to the paper. “They were simply standing exterior the fence. They weren’t getting into there or running anyplace.” 

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

Marshals advised NBC Information in a statement 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 within the midst of the grief-stricken neighborhood that was gathering around the school."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.