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

Survivors of the Texas elementary school capturing are recounting the gunman's eerie final phrases of "Good night time" and "You are all gonna die" earlier than opening fire, and how some performed useless to be spared in the spray of bullets.

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

She mentioned the gunman checked out certainly one of her teachers within the eye and mentioned, “Good evening” earlier than capturing her.

Miah informed her story by a CNN producer. She did not need to communicate on camera and declined to talk to any men following her expertise with the varsity capturing and solely felt snug chatting with ladies, the broadcaster said. NBC Information could not immediately verify 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 hearth, Miah said. She mentioned she heard “unhappy music” taking part in, believing the gunman put it on. 

When asked what the music was, she said it gave the impression of, “I would like folks to die music.”

Miah stated that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a buddy’s blood on herself to look useless. She also said she and a pal grabbed their instructor’s phone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send assist as a result of we’re in hassle.” 

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

A Robb Elementary teacher, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, advised NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert employees of a lockdown, went off after photographs were fired and children began to hide under their desks in the class. 

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

“It was a standard day till my teacher said we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was shooting 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, introduced, “You’re all gonna die,” after which began to shoot. 

“He shot the teacher and then he shot the youngsters,” Samuel stated. 

He explained that he survived by enjoying lifeless 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 said. “I performed dead so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

When police finally entered the room and shot the gunman, the children have been evacuated. Within the rushed exit, Samuel saw the bodies of his trainer and different pupils.

“There was blood on the bottom,” he stated. “And there were kids ... filled with blood.” 

The investigation into the shooting is ongoing, and plenty of questions remain as to why it took police so long to take out the gunman.

The shooter, Salvador Ramos, 18, was killed on the scene.

In a information convention Thursday, Texas officials walked back beforehand launched 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 primary 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 near the varsity and shot at two folks outdoors a funeral dwelling throughout the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officials mentioned the first 911 call got here 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, 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, said Thursday.

Texas investigators instructed NBC News victims of the capturing had been present in 4 classrooms.

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

Parents and family members who had been gathered outside Robb Elementary during the taking pictures begged and shouted at police to enter and shield their kids.

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

“The police had been doing nothing,” she said to the paper. “They had been simply standing exterior the fence. They weren’t going in there or working anyplace.” 

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

Marshals instructed NBC News in a statement that deputy marshals “never arrested or placed anybody in handcuffs whereas 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 information reporter for NBC News Digital.

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.