4th grade survivor of Texas school shooting describes gunman’s phrases earlier than opening fire

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

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

She said the gunman checked out one in all her lecturers within the eye and mentioned, “Good night time” before taking pictures her.

Miah instructed her story through a CNN producer. She didn't wish to converse on digicam and declined to speak to any males following her expertise with the college taking pictures and only felt comfy talking to women, the broadcaster stated. NBC News couldn't immediately verify the account.

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

After firing pictures in her classroom, the shooter went into the adjoining classroom and opened fire, Miah mentioned. She said she heard “unhappy music” enjoying, believing the gunman put it on. 

When asked what the music was, she stated it sounded like, “I would like individuals 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 trainer’s telephone and referred to as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship assist as a result of we’re in trouble.” 

In the Tuesday horror, 19 kids and two lecturers have been killed, and another 17 were wounded.

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

Samuel Salinas, 10, was a scholar in trainer Irma Garcia’s class on Tuesday when the varsity shooting unfolded.

“It was a traditional day until my teacher mentioned we’re on extreme lockdown” and “then there was shooting in the windows,” he mentioned in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Friday.

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

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

He defined that he survived by enjoying lifeless after he received 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 lastly entered the room and shot the gunman, the kids have been evacuated. Within the rushed exit, Samuel saw the our bodies of his trainer and different pupils.

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

The investigation into the shooting is ongoing, and many questions stay 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 conference Thursday, Texas officials walked back beforehand launched info, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a college 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 new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a automobile near the college and shot at two people outside a funeral residence throughout the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

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

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

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

Parents and family members who have been gathered outside Robb Elementary during the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their kids.

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

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

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 told NBC News in an announcement that deputy marshals “by no means arrested or positioned anyone in handcuffs whereas 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 information reporter for NBC News Digital.

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.