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

Survivors of the Texas elementary school shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie closing words of "Good night" and "You're all gonna die" earlier than opening hearth, and the way some performed lifeless to be spared in the spray of bullets.

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

She mentioned the gunman looked at one of her academics in the eye and said, “Good evening” before shooting her.

Miah advised her story through a CNN producer. She did not need to communicate on camera and declined to talk to any males following her expertise with the school shooting and only felt comfy talking to girls, the broadcaster stated. NBC News could not immediately confirm 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 fireplace, Miah stated. She mentioned she heard “sad music” taking part in, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

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

Within the Tuesday horror, 19 kids and two teachers had been killed, and another 17 had been wounded.

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

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

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

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

“He shot the teacher and then he shot the kids,” Samuel stated. 

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

When police finally entered the room and shot the gunman, the youngsters were evacuated. In the rushed exit, Samuel saw the bodies of his trainer and other pupils.

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

The investigation into the capturing is ongoing, and many 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 launched info, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a school police officer and entered the varsity building unobstructed.

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

Officers shared a new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a car close to the college and shot at two folks exterior a funeral home throughout the road, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officials mentioned the primary 911 call got here in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the college 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police have been on the scene. The primary 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 Department of Public Security, stated Thursday.

Texas investigators advised NBC News victims of the capturing were present in 4 school rooms.

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

Mother and father and family members who were gathered outdoors Robb Elementary in the course of the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their youngsters.

Angeli Rose Gomez advised The Wall Street Journal she was handcuffed by U.S. marshals outdoors the college for repeatedly demanding police enter the college. 

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

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

Marshals informed NBC News in a statement that deputy marshals “never arrested or placed anyone in handcuffs while securing the crime scene perimeter.”

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

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.