4th grade survivor of Texas college shooting describes gunman’s phrases earlier than opening fireplace

Survivors of the Texas elementary school taking pictures are recounting the gunman's eerie closing words of "Good night" and "You are all gonna die" earlier than opening fireplace, and how some played useless to be spared in the spray of bullets.

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

She said the gunman looked at one of her academics in the eye and said, “Good evening” earlier than capturing her.

Miah advised her story via a CNN producer. She did not need to speak on digicam and declined to speak to any men following her expertise with the college taking pictures and only felt comfy chatting with ladies, the broadcaster mentioned. NBC News couldn't instantly confirm 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 said she heard “unhappy music” enjoying, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

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

In the Tuesday horror, 19 youngsters and two lecturers had been killed, and one other 17 had 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 photographs have been fired and children started to cover below their desks within the class. 

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

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

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

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

He explained that he survived by taking part in lifeless 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 mentioned. “I played useless 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 trainer and different pupils.

“There was blood on the bottom,” he mentioned. “And there were kids ... stuffed 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 on the scene.

In a information convention Thursday, Texas officials walked again previously released information, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a college police officer and entered the varsity constructing unobstructed.

Police now say it took over an hour from the first 911 name to stop the bloodbath.

Officers shared a new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a vehicle close to the school and shot at two individuals exterior a funeral residence across 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 college 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police were 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 Security, stated Thursday.

Texas investigators advised NBC Information victims of the shooting had been found in four lecture rooms.

Robb Elementary serves second by 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.

Parents and loved ones who have been gathered outdoors Robb Elementary throughout the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their youngsters.

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

“The police had been doing nothing,” she stated to the paper. “They had been simply standing outside the fence. They weren’t getting in there or working wherever.” 

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

Marshals instructed NBC Information in a press release that deputy marshals “never 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 neighborhood that was gathering around the school."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.