4th grade survivor of Texas faculty taking pictures describes gunman’s words before opening hearth

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

Fourth grade pupil Miah Cerrillo, 11, told 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 among her lecturers in the eye and said, “Good night” before capturing her.

Miah informed her story by means of a CNN producer. She didn't wish to converse on camera and declined to talk to any men following her expertise with the varsity shooting and only felt snug speaking to girls, the broadcaster mentioned. NBC News could not immediately verify the account.

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

After firing shots in her classroom, the shooter went into the adjoining classroom and opened fireplace, Miah stated. 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 would like folks to die music.”

Miah stated that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a friend’s blood on herself to look useless. She additionally stated she and a buddy grabbed their teacher’s phone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship help because we’re in trouble.” 

In the Tuesday horror, 19 kids and two teachers were killed, and another 17 were wounded.

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

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

“It was a traditional day till my instructor 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 stated that the gunman barged into the classroom, introduced, “You’re all gonna die,” and then began to shoot. 

“He shot the teacher and then he shot the youngsters,” Samuel stated. 

He explained that he survived by taking part in lifeless 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 performed useless so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

When police finally entered the room and shot the gunman, the children have been evacuated. Within the rushed exit, Samuel noticed the bodies of his trainer and other pupils.

“There was blood on the bottom,” he stated. “And there have been youngsters ... filled with blood.” 

The investigation into the taking pictures 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 on the scene.

In a information conference Thursday, Texas officers walked again beforehand released information, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a faculty police officer and entered the varsity constructing unobstructed.

Police now say it took over an hour from the primary 911 name to cease the massacre.

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

Officials stated the primary 911 call came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the school 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police were on the scene. The primary officers on the scene called for backup, but tactical teams didn’t arrive till about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Department of Public Safety, stated Thursday.

Texas investigators instructed NBC Information victims of the capturing had been present in 4 lecture rooms.

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

Parents and family members who were gathered outside Robb Elementary through the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their youngsters.

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

“The police have been doing nothing,” she said to the paper. “They were simply standing outside the fence. They weren’t stepping into there or operating wherever.” 

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

Marshals advised NBC Information in an announcement that deputy marshals “never arrested or placed anyone in handcuffs while securing the crime scene perimeter.”

“Our deputy marshals maintained order and peace in the midst of the grief-stricken community that was gathering across the school."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.