4th grade survivor of Texas college taking pictures describes gunman’s words before opening hearth

Survivors of the Texas elementary faculty shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie remaining words of "Good night time" and "You are all gonna die" earlier than opening fireplace, and the way some performed lifeless to be spared in the spray of bullets.

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

She stated the gunman looked at considered one of her teachers in the eye and mentioned, “Good evening” earlier than capturing her.

Miah informed her story by means of a CNN producer. She did not wish to speak on digital camera and declined to speak to any men following her experience with the varsity shooting and only felt snug talking to girls, the broadcaster stated. NBC Information couldn't instantly 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 fire, Miah mentioned. She stated she heard “sad music” enjoying, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

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

In the Tuesday horror, 19 youngsters and two teachers were killed, and one other 17 were wounded.

A Robb Elementary instructor, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, advised NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert staff of a lockdown, went off after shots have been fired and children began to cover below their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a standard day till my teacher said we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was taking pictures within the home windows,” he mentioned in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Friday.

He mentioned that the gunman barged into the classroom, introduced, “You’re all gonna die,” and then started to shoot. 

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

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

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

When police lastly entered the room and shot the gunman, the kids had been evacuated. In the rushed exit, Samuel noticed the bodies of his teacher and different pupils.

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

The investigation into the capturing is ongoing, and lots 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 conference Thursday, Texas officials walked back previously released data, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a college police officer and entered the college building unobstructed.

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

Officials shared a brand new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a vehicle near the college and shot at two individuals outdoors a funeral house throughout the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers stated the primary 911 call got here in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the school 10 minutes later and four minutes later police have been on the scene. The primary officers on the scene called 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, stated Thursday.

Texas investigators instructed NBC Information victims of the shooting had been found in 4 lecture rooms.

Robb Elementary serves second by fourth grade 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 loved ones who have been gathered exterior Robb Elementary during the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their children.

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

“The police have been doing nothing,” she mentioned to the paper. “They had been simply standing outside the fence. They weren’t moving into there or operating anywhere.” 

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

Marshals instructed NBC News in a press release 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 in the midst of the grief-stricken neighborhood that was gathering around the school."

Marlene Lenthang is a breaking information reporter for NBC Information Digital.

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.