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

Survivors of the Texas elementary faculty taking pictures are recounting the gunman's eerie final words of "Good night time" and "You're all gonna die" earlier than opening fireplace, 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 checked out considered one of her teachers within the eye and said, “Good evening” before capturing her.

Miah advised her story via a CNN producer. She didn't want to converse on camera and declined to talk to any men following her experience with the varsity capturing and solely felt comfy chatting with girls, the broadcaster mentioned. NBC News could not immediately confirm 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 fire, Miah stated. She said she heard “unhappy music” enjoying, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

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

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

A Robb Elementary teacher, 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 pictures have been fired and youngsters began to hide below their desks in the class. 

Samuel Salinas, 10, was a student in instructor Irma Garcia’s class on Tuesday when the school shooting unfolded.

“It was a traditional day until my trainer stated we’re on extreme lockdown” and “then there was taking pictures in the 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 began to shoot. 

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

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

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

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

“There was blood on the ground,” he said. “And there were children ... stuffed with blood.” 

The investigation into the taking pictures is ongoing, and plenty of questions remain as to why it took police so long to take out the gunman.

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

In a information convention Thursday, Texas officials walked back beforehand released info, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a school police officer and entered the college building unobstructed.

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

Officers shared a brand new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a vehicle close to the college and shot at two folks outside a funeral dwelling throughout the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officials 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 had been on the scene. The primary officers on the scene known as for backup, however tactical groups didn’t arrive till about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Department of Public Safety, said Thursday.

Texas investigators instructed NBC News victims of the taking pictures have been present in four classrooms.

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

Mother and father and loved ones who were gathered outside Robb Elementary in the course of the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their youngsters.

Angeli Rose Gomez told The Wall Street Journal she was handcuffed by U.S. marshals exterior 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 moving into there or running anyplace.” 

She said 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 lively investigation. 

Marshals advised NBC Information in an announcement 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 neighborhood that was gathering around the faculty."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.