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

Survivors of the Texas elementary faculty shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie ultimate phrases of "Good night" and "You're all gonna die" earlier than opening fireplace, and how some performed lifeless to be spared in the spray of bullets.

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

She stated the gunman looked at certainly one of her academics within the eye and stated, “Good night time” earlier than shooting her.

Miah instructed her story via a CNN producer. She didn't want to communicate on digital camera and declined to speak to any males following her expertise with the school capturing and solely felt comfortable talking to ladies, the broadcaster mentioned. NBC Information couldn't immediately confirm the account.

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

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

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

Miah said that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a friend’s blood on herself to look useless. She additionally stated she and a pal grabbed their instructor’s phone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send help because we’re in bother.” 

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

A Robb Elementary trainer, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, told NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert staff of a lockdown, went off after photographs were fired and kids 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 shooting unfolded.

“It was a standard day until my teacher said 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 said that the gunman barged into the classroom, announced, “You’re all gonna die,” after which began to shoot. 

“He shot the instructor after which he shot the children,” Samuel said. 

He defined 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 mentioned. “I performed useless so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

When police lastly entered the room and shot the gunman, the kids were evacuated. Within the rushed exit, Samuel noticed the bodies of his instructor and different pupils.

“There was blood on the bottom,” he stated. “And there have been kids ... stuffed with blood.” 

The investigation into the capturing 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 conference Thursday, Texas officers walked back beforehand released information, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a school police officer and entered the school building unobstructed.

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

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

Officials mentioned the first 911 name got here in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the school 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police were on the scene. The first officers on the scene known as for backup, however tactical teams didn’t arrive until about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Division of Public Safety, said Thursday.

Texas investigators advised NBC News victims of the shooting had been present in four lecture rooms.

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 group.

Dad and mom and loved ones who had been gathered outdoors Robb Elementary in the course of the taking pictures begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their children.

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

“The police had been doing nothing,” she mentioned to the paper. “They had been just standing outdoors the fence. They weren’t moving into there or working anywhere.” 

She stated at first she waited patiently then when she became extra fervent 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 anybody in handcuffs while 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 news reporter for NBC Information Digital.

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.