4th grade survivor of Texas college shooting describes gunman’s words before opening hearth

Survivors of the Texas elementary college capturing are recounting the gunman's eerie final words of "Good night time" and "You are all gonna die" earlier than opening fire, and the way some performed lifeless to be spared within the spray of bullets.

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

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

Miah advised her story by means of a CNN producer. She didn't want to communicate on camera and declined to speak to any males following her experience with the varsity taking pictures and only felt comfy talking to ladies, the broadcaster mentioned. NBC News couldn't instantly 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 stated she heard “sad music” playing, believing the gunman put it on. 

When requested what the music was, she mentioned it seemed like, “I need individuals to die music.”

Miah stated that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a friend’s blood on herself to look lifeless. She additionally mentioned she and a buddy grabbed their trainer’s cellphone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send assist because we’re in trouble.” 

In the Tuesday horror, 19 kids and two teachers have been killed, and one other 17 have been wounded.

A Robb Elementary instructor, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert workers of a lockdown, went off after pictures were fired and youngsters began to cover below their desks within the class. 

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

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

He mentioned that the gunman barged into the classroom, announced, “You’re all gonna die,” after which started to shoot. 

“He shot the teacher after which he shot the kids,” Samuel mentioned. 

He explained that he survived by enjoying lifeless 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 lifeless so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

When police lastly entered the room and shot the gunman, the kids had been evacuated. Within the rushed exit, Samuel saw the bodies of his instructor and other pupils.

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

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

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

In a news convention Thursday, Texas officers walked back previously 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 first 911 call to cease the massacre.

Officers shared a brand new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a automobile close to the college and shot at two people outdoors a funeral residence throughout the road, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officials mentioned the primary 911 name got here in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the college 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police were on the scene. The first officers on the scene referred to as 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 Safety, stated Thursday.

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

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

Mother and father and loved ones who have been gathered outside Robb Elementary through the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their youngsters.

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

“The police had been doing nothing,” she stated to the paper. “They had been simply standing outdoors the fence. They weren’t entering into there or operating wherever.” 

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

Marshals told NBC Information in a statement that deputy marshals “by no means arrested or positioned anyone 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 school."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.