4th grade survivor of Texas faculty shooting describes gunman’s words before opening fireplace

Survivors of the Texas elementary faculty taking pictures are recounting the gunman's eerie ultimate phrases of "Good night" and "You're all gonna die" before opening fireplace, and the way some played dead to be spared within the spray of bullets.

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

She said the gunman checked out certainly one of her lecturers within the eye and mentioned, “Good night time” earlier than shooting her.

Miah informed her story via a CNN producer. She didn't need to communicate on digital camera and declined to talk to any males following her experience with the college taking pictures and solely felt snug chatting with girls, the broadcaster said. 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 hearth, Miah said. She stated she heard “unhappy music” enjoying, believing the gunman put it on. 

When asked what the music was, she stated it sounded like, “I would like individuals to die music.”

Miah said that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a pal’s blood on herself to look dead. She also mentioned she and a friend grabbed their trainer’s telephone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send help because we’re in hassle.” 

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

A Robb Elementary trainer, who spoke on the condition 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 kids started to hide underneath their desks in the class. 

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

“It was a standard day until my teacher said we’re on extreme lockdown” and “then there was shooting in the windows,” he said 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,” and then began to shoot. 

“He shot the instructor after which he shot the children,” Samuel said. 

He explained that he survived by playing lifeless after he obtained hit within the leg with shrapnel that hit a chair between him and the shooter.

“I believe 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 children have been evacuated. Within the rushed exit, Samuel noticed the our bodies of his instructor and other pupils.

“There was blood on the bottom,” he stated. “And there were children ... full of 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 convention Thursday, Texas officials walked again previously released info, 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 massacre.

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

Officers said the primary 911 name 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 first officers on the scene referred to as for backup, however tactical teams didn’t arrive until about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Department of Public Safety, stated Thursday.

Texas investigators informed NBC Information victims of the taking pictures had been present in four lecture rooms.

Robb Elementary serves second through fourth grade college students in the small town of Uvalde, which is about 75 miles from the Mexico borders and home to a big Latino community.

Mother and father and family members who had been gathered outdoors Robb Elementary during the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their kids.

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

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

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

Marshals advised NBC News in a statement that deputy marshals “never arrested or positioned anybody in handcuffs whereas 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 news reporter for NBC News Digital.

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.