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

Survivors of the Texas elementary faculty shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie closing words of "Good night time" and "You are all gonna die" before opening hearth, and how some played dead 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 stated the gunman looked at one in all her academics within the eye and mentioned, “Good night” earlier than shooting her.

Miah informed her story via a CNN producer. She did not need to speak on digicam and declined to talk to any men following her expertise with the college capturing and solely felt snug speaking to girls, the broadcaster stated. NBC Information could not immediately 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 fire, Miah said. She mentioned she heard “sad music” playing, believing the gunman put it on. 

When asked what the music was, she said it sounded like, “I want individuals to die music.”

Miah said that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a pal’s blood on herself to look lifeless. She additionally stated she and a friend grabbed their trainer’s phone and known as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship help because we’re in trouble.” 

In the Tuesday horror, 19 children and two academics had been killed, and one other 17 were wounded.

A Robb Elementary teacher, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, informed NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert employees of a lockdown, went off after photographs have been fired and children began to cover below their desks in the class. 

Samuel Salinas, 10, was a student in teacher Irma Garcia’s class on Tuesday when the school shooting unfolded.

“It was a normal day until my instructor said we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was capturing in the home windows,” he said 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 started to shoot. 

“He shot the instructor and then he shot the children,” Samuel said. 

He explained that he survived by taking part in useless after he acquired hit within the leg with shrapnel that hit a chair between him and the shooter.

“I feel he was aiming at me,” Samuel mentioned. “I played dead so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

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

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

The investigation into the taking pictures 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 news convention Thursday, Texas officers walked again beforehand released info, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a school police officer and entered the school constructing unobstructed.

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

Officials shared a brand new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a automobile close to the school and shot at two folks exterior a funeral residence across the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officials said the first 911 call got here in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the college 10 minutes later and four minutes later police were 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 Security, said Thursday.

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

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

Parents and family members who have been gathered exterior Robb Elementary during the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and shield their children.

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

“The police were doing nothing,” she stated to the paper. “They were just standing exterior the fence. They weren’t entering into there or operating anyplace.” 

She stated at first she waited patiently then when she turned 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 “never arrested or positioned anyone in handcuffs while securing the crime scene perimeter.”

“Our deputy marshals maintained order and peace in the midst of the grief-stricken group that was gathering around the school."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.