4th grade survivor of Texas school taking pictures describes gunman’s phrases before opening fire

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

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

She mentioned the gunman looked at one of her teachers in the eye and stated, “Good night time” earlier than shooting her.

Miah instructed her story by means of a CNN producer. She didn't want to speak on digicam and declined to speak to any males following her experience with the school shooting and only felt snug chatting with ladies, the broadcaster said. NBC News could not instantly 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 fireplace, Miah said. She mentioned she heard “unhappy music” taking part in, believing the gunman put it on. 

When asked what the music was, she mentioned it seemed like, “I would like people to die music.”

Miah mentioned that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a friend’s blood on herself to look lifeless. She additionally said she and a pal grabbed their instructor’s phone and referred to as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship assist as a result of we’re in hassle.” 

Within the Tuesday horror, 19 children and two teachers were killed, and another 17 were wounded.

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

“It was a traditional day till my teacher said we’re on extreme lockdown” and “then there was taking pictures within the home windows,” he stated 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,” after which started to shoot. 

“He shot the teacher after which he shot the children,” Samuel stated. 

He explained that he survived by playing dead after he bought 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 performed dead so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

When police finally entered the room and shot the gunman, the children were evacuated. Within the rushed exit, Samuel saw the our bodies of his instructor and different pupils.

“There was blood on the ground,” he stated. “And there have been youngsters ... full of blood.” 

The investigation into the taking pictures is ongoing, and plenty of questions stay 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 conference Thursday, Texas officials walked back beforehand released data, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a faculty police officer and entered the school building unobstructed.

Police now say it took over an hour from the first 911 name to stop the massacre.

Officials shared a brand new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a automobile near the varsity and shot at two individuals outdoors a funeral house across the road, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officials said the primary 911 call came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the college 10 minutes later and four minutes later police were on the scene. The primary officers on the scene known as for backup, but tactical teams 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 Information victims of the capturing were found in 4 lecture rooms.

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

Parents and family members who had been gathered outdoors Robb Elementary in the course of the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their kids.

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

“The police have been doing nothing,” she mentioned to the paper. “They were just standing outdoors the fence. They weren’t getting into there or working wherever.” 

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

Marshals advised NBC Information in a statement that deputy marshals “never arrested or positioned anyone in handcuffs whereas securing the crime scene perimeter.”

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

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.