4th grade survivor of Texas school capturing describes gunman’s phrases before opening fireplace

Survivors of the Texas elementary college shooting 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 lifeless to be spared within the spray of bullets.

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

She stated the gunman checked out one among her academics in the eye and mentioned, “Good night” earlier than shooting her.

Miah informed her story through a CNN producer. She didn't wish to communicate on camera and declined to talk to any men following her experience with the varsity shooting and solely felt comfortable talking to ladies, the broadcaster stated. NBC News could not instantly verify 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 hearth, Miah said. She mentioned she heard “sad music” playing, believing the gunman put it on. 

When requested what the music was, she mentioned it sounded like, “I would like 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 dead. She additionally stated she and a friend grabbed their instructor’s cellphone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send help because we’re in hassle.” 

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

A Robb Elementary instructor, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, informed NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert staff of a lockdown, went off after photographs have been fired and kids started to hide below their desks in the class. 

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

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

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

“He shot the trainer and then he shot the children,” Samuel mentioned. 

He defined that he survived by playing dead after he acquired 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 lifeless so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

When police lastly entered the room and shot the gunman, the kids have been evacuated. In the rushed exit, Samuel saw the our bodies of his instructor 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 lots of 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 news conference Thursday, Texas officers walked back beforehand released info, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a school police officer and entered the college building unobstructed.

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

Officials shared a new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a car near the school and shot at two individuals exterior a funeral home across the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers stated the first 911 name got here in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the college 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police had been on the scene. The first officers on the scene known as for backup, but tactical groups didn’t arrive until about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Department of Public Safety, stated Thursday.

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

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

Mother and father and loved ones who have been gathered outside Robb Elementary throughout the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their youngsters.

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

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

She mentioned 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 energetic investigation. 

Marshals instructed NBC Information in an announcement that deputy marshals “by no means arrested or placed 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 college."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.