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

Survivors of the Texas elementary faculty taking pictures are recounting the gunman's eerie last phrases of "Good night time" and "You're all gonna die" before opening hearth, and how some played useless 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 stated the gunman looked at one of her academics within the eye and said, “Good night time” earlier than capturing her.

Miah told her story via a CNN producer. She didn't wish to speak on digicam and declined to talk to any males following her expertise with the varsity taking pictures and only felt snug speaking to girls, the broadcaster stated. NBC Information could not immediately 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 fire, Miah mentioned. She mentioned she heard “sad music” enjoying, 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 mentioned that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a buddy’s blood on herself to look lifeless. She additionally mentioned she and a friend grabbed their instructor’s cellphone and referred to as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send help because we’re in trouble.” 

In the Tuesday horror, 19 youngsters and two lecturers were killed, and another 17 were wounded.

A Robb Elementary teacher, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, instructed NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert staff of a lockdown, went off after shots have been fired and children started to cover underneath their desks in the class. 

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

“It was a normal day till my trainer said we’re on extreme lockdown” and “then there was capturing within the windows,” he said 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,” and then began to shoot. 

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

He defined that he survived by playing useless after he obtained hit within the leg with shrapnel that hit a chair between him and the shooter.

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

When police finally entered the room and shot the gunman, the youngsters have been evacuated. In the rushed exit, Samuel noticed the our bodies of his teacher and different pupils.

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

The investigation into the taking pictures is ongoing, and lots 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 conference Thursday, Texas officers walked back previously released data, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a faculty police officer and entered the varsity building unobstructed.

Police now say it took over an hour from the primary 911 call to cease the bloodbath.

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 individuals outdoors a funeral house throughout the road, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officials said the primary 911 name 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 teams didn’t arrive till 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 taking pictures had been found in 4 lecture 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 residential to a big Latino neighborhood.

Mother and father and family members who had been gathered exterior Robb Elementary throughout the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their youngsters.

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

“The police were doing nothing,” she stated to the paper. “They have been simply standing exterior the fence. They weren’t getting into there or running anyplace.” 

She said at first she waited patiently then when she grew to become extra fervent together with her pleas, U.S. marshals allegedly arrested her for intervening in an active investigation. 

Marshals advised NBC News in an announcement that deputy marshals “by no means arrested or positioned anyone 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 school."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.