4th grade survivor of Texas school taking pictures describes gunman’s words before opening fireplace

Survivors of the Texas elementary college shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie last words of "Good night" and "You are all gonna die" earlier than opening fireplace, and the way some performed useless to be spared within the spray of bullets.

Fourth grade student Miah Cerrillo, 11, advised 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 lecturers in the eye and mentioned, “Good evening” before shooting her.

Miah told her story by a CNN producer. She didn't want to communicate on digital camera and declined to talk to any men following her expertise with the college capturing and solely felt comfortable chatting with girls, the broadcaster stated. NBC Information could not immediately verify the account.

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

After firing pictures in her classroom, the shooter went into the adjoining classroom and opened hearth, Miah mentioned. She stated she heard “sad music” taking part in, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

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

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

A Robb Elementary instructor, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, told NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert workers of a lockdown, went off after shots had been fired and children started to hide below their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a traditional day until my trainer said we’re on extreme lockdown” and “then there was shooting within the home windows,” he stated in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Friday.

He said that the gunman barged into the classroom, announced, “You’re all gonna die,” and then began to shoot. 

“He shot the trainer and then he shot the youngsters,” Samuel mentioned. 

He defined that he survived by enjoying lifeless after he got hit in the leg with shrapnel that hit a chair between him and the shooter.

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

When police lastly entered the room and shot the gunman, the youngsters have been evacuated. Within the rushed exit, Samuel saw the bodies of his instructor and different pupils.

“There was blood on the ground,” he said. “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 long to take out the gunman.

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

In a news conference Thursday, Texas officers walked back previously launched information, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a college police officer and entered the school building unobstructed.

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

Officials shared a brand new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a car near the varsity and shot at two folks exterior a funeral dwelling throughout the road, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officials stated the first 911 name came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the school 10 minutes later and four minutes later police have been on the scene. The first officers on the scene called for backup, but tactical groups didn’t arrive till about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Department of Public Security, stated Thursday.

Texas investigators told NBC News victims of the shooting had been found in four classrooms.

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 group.

Mother and father and loved ones who were gathered outdoors Robb Elementary throughout the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their youngsters.

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

“The police had been doing nothing,” she stated to the paper. “They were simply standing exterior the fence. They weren’t moving into there or working anywhere.” 

She said 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 energetic investigation. 

Marshals informed NBC Information in an announcement that deputy marshals “by no means 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 community that was gathering across the faculty."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.