4th grade survivor of Texas faculty capturing describes gunman’s words earlier than opening fireplace

Survivors of the Texas elementary school taking pictures are recounting the gunman's eerie remaining words of "Good night" and "You are all gonna die" earlier than opening fire, and how some played dead to be spared in the spray of bullets.

Fourth grade pupil Miah Cerrillo, 11, told 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 in every of her academics in the eye and mentioned, “Good night time” earlier than taking pictures her.

Miah instructed her story via a CNN producer. She did not need to communicate on digicam and declined to talk to any men following her expertise with the college shooting and solely felt comfy chatting with ladies, the broadcaster said. NBC Information could not immediately verify 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 stated. She said she heard “unhappy music” enjoying, believing the gunman put it on. 

When asked what the music was, she mentioned it appeared like, “I want folks to die music.”

Miah stated that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a pal’s blood on herself to look dead. She also stated she and a buddy grabbed their teacher’s telephone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship help because we’re in hassle.” 

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

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

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

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

“He shot the instructor and then he shot the kids,” Samuel stated. 

He explained that he survived by enjoying useless after he received hit within the leg with shrapnel that hit a chair between him and the shooter.

“I think he was aiming at me,” Samuel said. “I performed useless 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 saw the bodies of his teacher and different pupils.

“There was blood on the bottom,” he said. “And there have been children ... full of blood.” 

The investigation into the shooting is ongoing, and many questions stay 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 information conference Thursday, Texas officers walked back beforehand launched info, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a college police officer and entered the varsity building unobstructed.

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

Officers shared a brand new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a vehicle close to the school and shot at two people outside a funeral house throughout the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers mentioned the primary 911 name got here in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the varsity 10 minutes later and four minutes later police were on the scene. The primary officers on the scene referred to as for backup, however tactical teams didn’t arrive until about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Division of Public Security, stated Thursday.

Texas investigators informed NBC News victims of the taking pictures have been found in four lecture rooms.

Robb Elementary serves second by fourth grade college students in the small town of Uvalde, which is about 75 miles from the Mexico borders and residential to a big Latino community.

Mother and father and family members who were gathered exterior Robb Elementary through 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 varsity. 

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

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 informed NBC Information in a press release that deputy marshals “by no means arrested or positioned anybody in handcuffs while securing the crime scene perimeter.”

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

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.