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

Survivors of the Texas elementary college shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie closing phrases of "Good night time" and "You're all gonna die" earlier than opening fireplace, and the way some played lifeless to be spared within 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 mentioned the gunman looked at one among her teachers in the eye and mentioned, “Good night” earlier than taking pictures her.

Miah told her story via a CNN producer. She did not want to speak on digicam and declined to talk to any men following her experience with the varsity shooting and solely felt snug speaking to girls, the broadcaster said. NBC Information couldn't immediately verify the account.

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

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

When asked what the music was, she said it gave the impression of, “I would like folks to die music.”

Miah stated that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a good friend’s blood on herself to look lifeless. She additionally said she and a pal grabbed their trainer’s telephone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send assist because we’re in bother.” 

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

A Robb Elementary trainer, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, informed NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert workers of a lockdown, went off after photographs have been fired and youngsters 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 school shooting unfolded.

“It was a normal day until my trainer mentioned we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was capturing within the home windows,” he mentioned 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 began to shoot. 

“He shot the instructor and then he shot the kids,” Samuel stated. 

He defined that he survived by taking part in dead after he got hit within the leg with shrapnel that hit a chair between him and the shooter.

“I think he was aiming at me,” Samuel said. “I played lifeless so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

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

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

The investigation into the shooting is ongoing, and many questions stay 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 conference Thursday, Texas officers walked again beforehand released information, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a school police officer and entered the college 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 car near the varsity and shot at two folks outside a funeral home across the road, 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 college 10 minutes later and four minutes later police have been 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, stated Thursday.

Texas investigators advised NBC Information victims of the taking pictures were found in four classrooms.

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

Dad and mom and loved ones who had been gathered outside Robb Elementary throughout the taking pictures begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their youngsters.

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

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

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

Marshals told NBC News in a statement 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 group that was gathering across the college."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.