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

Survivors of the Texas elementary college taking pictures are recounting the gunman's eerie ultimate phrases of "Good night" and "You're all gonna die" earlier than opening fireplace, and the way some played dead to be spared in 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 mentioned the gunman checked out one among her lecturers within the eye and mentioned, “Good night time” before taking pictures her.

Miah advised her story by a CNN producer. She did not wish to communicate on camera and declined to talk to any men following her expertise with the varsity taking pictures and only felt comfy chatting with ladies, the broadcaster said. NBC Information couldn't instantly verify the account.

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

After firing shots in her classroom, the shooter went into the adjoining classroom and opened fireplace, Miah stated. 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 want people to die music.”

Miah said that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a friend’s blood on herself to look useless. She also said she and a pal grabbed their instructor’s telephone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship assist as a result of we’re in bother.” 

Within the Tuesday horror, 19 youngsters and two lecturers had been killed, and one other 17 have been wounded.

A Robb Elementary trainer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, instructed NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert staff of a lockdown, went off after pictures have been fired and youngsters started to cover under their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a traditional day till my trainer stated we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was shooting within the windows,” he mentioned 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 kids,” Samuel stated. 

He defined that he survived by playing useless after he received 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 lifeless so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

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

“There was blood on the bottom,” he mentioned. “And there were children ... full of blood.” 

The investigation into the taking pictures 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 information convention Thursday, Texas officers walked back beforehand released information, 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 name to cease the massacre.

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

Officials said the first 911 call came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the varsity 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police have been on the scene. The first officers on the scene referred to as for backup, however tactical groups didn’t arrive until about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Division of Public Safety, stated Thursday.

Texas investigators instructed NBC News victims of the taking pictures had been found in 4 school rooms.

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

Parents and loved ones who were gathered exterior Robb Elementary through the shooting 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 varsity for repeatedly demanding police enter the varsity. 

“The police had been doing nothing,” she said to the paper. “They had been simply standing exterior the fence. They weren’t going in there or running anyplace.” 

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

Marshals informed NBC News 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 in the midst of the grief-stricken neighborhood that was gathering around the faculty."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.