4th grade survivor of Texas school shooting describes gunman’s words before opening fireplace

Survivors of the Texas elementary school taking pictures are recounting the gunman's eerie last words of "Good night time" and "You're all gonna die" earlier than opening fire, and the way 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 Stitch” when the shooter appeared Tuesday at Robb Elementary in Uvalde.

She mentioned the gunman looked at one of her academics within the eye and said, “Good evening” earlier than taking pictures her.

Miah advised her story by a CNN producer. She didn't want to speak on camera and declined to talk to any men following her expertise with the varsity capturing and solely felt comfortable chatting with women, the broadcaster said. NBC News could not instantly confirm the account.

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

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

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

Miah stated that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a good friend’s blood on herself to look dead. She additionally mentioned she and a pal grabbed their instructor’s telephone and referred to as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship assist as a result of we’re in bother.” 

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

A Robb Elementary teacher, 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 shots had been fired and youngsters began to hide underneath their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a traditional day till my teacher said we’re on extreme lockdown” and “then there was taking pictures within the windows,” he stated 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 mentioned. 

He defined that he survived by enjoying dead after he bought hit in the leg with shrapnel that hit a chair between him and the shooter.

“I believe he was aiming at me,” Samuel said. “I performed useless so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

When police lastly entered the room and shot the gunman, the kids have been evacuated. Within the rushed exit, Samuel saw the our bodies of his instructor and other pupils.

“There was blood on the ground,” he said. “And there were kids ... stuffed with blood.” 

The investigation into the taking pictures is ongoing, and lots of questions stay 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 news convention Thursday, Texas officers walked again previously launched information, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a faculty police officer and entered the school building unobstructed.

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

Officers shared a new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a car near the school and shot at two people outdoors a funeral house throughout the road, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers mentioned the primary 911 call came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the varsity 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police had been 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 Safety, said Thursday.

Texas investigators instructed NBC Information victims of the shooting have been present in 4 classrooms.

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

Dad and mom and loved ones who were gathered exterior Robb Elementary throughout the taking pictures begged and shouted at police to enter and shield their youngsters.

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

“The police were doing nothing,” she said to the paper. “They had been just standing outdoors the fence. They weren’t moving into there or running anyplace.” 

She stated 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 energetic investigation. 

Marshals instructed NBC News in an announcement that deputy marshals “by no means arrested or placed anyone in handcuffs while securing the crime scene perimeter.”

“Our deputy marshals maintained order and peace within the midst of the grief-stricken neighborhood that was gathering across the faculty."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.