4th grade survivor of Texas school capturing describes gunman’s phrases earlier than opening fireplace

Survivors of the Texas elementary school shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie last words of "Good night" and "You are all gonna die" before opening hearth, and the way some played useless to be spared within the spray of bullets.

Fourth grade scholar 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 looked at one among her lecturers within the eye and mentioned, “Good night” earlier than capturing her.

Miah advised her story by a CNN producer. She did not want to converse on digital camera and declined to talk to any men following her experience with the school capturing and solely felt snug talking to women, the broadcaster said. NBC News 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 hearth, Miah mentioned. She said she heard “sad music” playing, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

Miah stated that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a pal’s blood on herself to look lifeless. She also said she and a pal grabbed their instructor’s telephone and referred to as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send help because we’re in hassle.” 

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

A Robb Elementary trainer, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, informed NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert staff of a lockdown, went off after photographs were fired and kids started to hide underneath their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a traditional day until my teacher said we’re on extreme lockdown” and “then there was capturing within the home windows,” he said 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,” after which started to shoot. 

“He shot the instructor after which he shot the kids,” Samuel said. 

He defined that he survived by playing useless after he obtained hit within the leg with shrapnel that hit a chair between him and the shooter.

“I think he was aiming at me,” Samuel stated. “I performed lifeless so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

When police finally entered the room and shot the gunman, the youngsters have been evacuated. Within the rushed exit, Samuel noticed the our bodies of his teacher and other pupils.

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

The investigation into the shooting is ongoing, and plenty of 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 information conference Thursday, Texas officers walked again beforehand released information, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a school police officer and entered the varsity building unobstructed.

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

Officers shared a brand new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a vehicle near the school and shot at two individuals exterior a funeral home across the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

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

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

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

Mother and father and family members who had been gathered exterior Robb Elementary through the taking pictures begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their youngsters.

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

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

She mentioned at first she waited patiently then when she became extra fervent with her pleas, U.S. marshals allegedly arrested her for intervening in an lively investigation. 

Marshals advised NBC News in a press release 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 community that was gathering across the college."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.