4th grade survivor of Texas school taking pictures describes gunman’s words earlier than opening hearth

Survivors of the Texas elementary college shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie remaining phrases of "Good night time" and "You're all gonna die" before opening hearth, and the way some played dead to be spared within the spray of bullets.

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

She said the gunman checked out one in all her academics in the eye and stated, “Good night” before capturing her.

Miah informed her story through a CNN producer. She didn't want to speak on digital camera and declined to speak to any men following her experience with the varsity taking pictures and only felt comfy talking to women, the broadcaster stated. NBC Information could not instantly confirm the account.

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

After firing pictures in her classroom, the shooter went into the adjoining classroom and opened fireplace, Miah mentioned. She mentioned she heard “unhappy music” playing, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

Miah stated that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a buddy’s blood on herself to look lifeless. She additionally stated she and a good friend grabbed their teacher’s telephone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship 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 teacher, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, told NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert staff of a lockdown, went off after pictures have been fired and children started to cover beneath their desks in the class. 

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

“It was a traditional day until my trainer stated we’re on extreme lockdown” and “then there was shooting in the home windows,” he stated 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 instructor and then he shot the kids,” Samuel mentioned. 

He defined that he survived by taking part in lifeless after he got hit within the leg with shrapnel that hit a chair between him and the shooter.

“I think he was aiming at me,” Samuel mentioned. “I performed lifeless so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

When police finally entered the room and shot the gunman, the kids were evacuated. In the rushed exit, Samuel noticed the bodies of his teacher and other pupils.

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

The investigation into the capturing is ongoing, and plenty of questions stay as to why it took police so long to take out the gunman.

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

In a news convention Thursday, Texas officers walked again previously released data, 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 name to cease the massacre.

Officers shared a new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a automobile near the varsity and shot at two individuals exterior a funeral dwelling throughout the road, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officials said the primary 911 call got here in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the school 10 minutes later and four minutes later police have been on the scene. The first officers on the scene called for backup, but tactical teams didn’t arrive till about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Department of Public Safety, said Thursday.

Texas investigators instructed NBC Information victims of the shooting were found in four school rooms.

Robb Elementary serves second through 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 community.

Mother and father and family members who were gathered outside Robb Elementary during the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their kids.

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

“The police had been doing nothing,” she stated to the paper. “They had been just standing exterior the fence. They weren’t getting in there or operating anywhere.” 

She mentioned at first she waited patiently then when she became more fervent with her pleas, U.S. marshals allegedly arrested her for intervening in an active investigation. 

Marshals instructed NBC Information in an announcement that deputy marshals “by no means arrested or positioned anyone in handcuffs whereas 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.