4th grade survivor of Texas faculty shooting describes gunman’s phrases before opening fireplace

Survivors of the Texas elementary faculty taking pictures are recounting the gunman's eerie remaining words of "Good night" and "You are all gonna die" before opening hearth, and how some performed dead to be spared in the spray of bullets.

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

She said the gunman checked out certainly one of her lecturers within the eye and said, “Good evening” earlier than shooting her.

Miah advised her story through a CNN producer. She didn't wish to communicate on digicam and declined to speak to any males following her experience with the varsity capturing and only felt comfy talking to ladies, the broadcaster stated. NBC Information couldn't immediately confirm the account.

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

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

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

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, advised NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert workers of a lockdown, went off after shots were fired and children started to hide below their desks in the class. 

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

“It was a traditional day until my trainer stated 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 mentioned that the gunman barged into the classroom, announced, “You’re all gonna die,” after which began to shoot. 

“He shot the teacher after which he shot the children,” Samuel stated. 

He explained that he survived by enjoying dead after he got 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 performed dead so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

When police finally entered the room and shot the gunman, the youngsters had been evacuated. In the rushed exit, Samuel noticed the bodies of his instructor and other pupils.

“There was blood on the bottom,” he said. “And there have been youngsters ... filled with blood.” 

The investigation into the taking pictures is ongoing, and plenty of questions stay 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 conference Thursday, Texas officials walked again previously launched info, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a college police officer and entered the varsity constructing unobstructed.

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

Officers shared a new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a car close to the college and shot at two people outdoors a funeral dwelling across the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers stated the first 911 name came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the varsity 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police were on the scene. The primary officers on the scene known as for backup, but tactical groups didn’t arrive till about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Division of Public Safety, said Thursday.

Texas investigators told NBC Information victims of the shooting were present in four school rooms.

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

Dad and mom and family members who were gathered outdoors Robb Elementary during the taking pictures begged and shouted at police to enter and shield their youngsters.

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

“The police had been doing nothing,” she stated to the paper. “They have been just standing outdoors the fence. They weren’t getting in there or operating wherever.” 

She stated at first she waited patiently then when she became more fervent 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 “by no means arrested or placed anybody in handcuffs whereas 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 college."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.