4th grade survivor of Texas college shooting describes gunman’s phrases earlier than opening fireplace

Survivors of the Texas elementary college capturing are recounting the gunman's eerie final words of "Good night time" and "You are all gonna die" before opening fireplace, and the way some performed lifeless to be spared in the spray of bullets.

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

She said the gunman checked out one among her teachers in the eye and mentioned, “Good evening” before shooting her.

Miah told her story by means of a CNN producer. She didn't want to communicate on digicam and declined to speak to any males following her experience with the varsity taking pictures and only felt snug chatting with ladies, the broadcaster said. NBC News couldn't instantly 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 “unhappy music” taking part in, believing the gunman put it on. 

When requested what the music was, she said it sounded like, “I need individuals to die music.”

Miah stated that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a pal’s blood on herself to look useless. She additionally mentioned she and a good friend grabbed their trainer’s telephone and referred to as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send assist as a result of we’re in bother.” 

Within the Tuesday horror, 19 youngsters and two lecturers were killed, and one other 17 have been wounded.

A Robb Elementary teacher, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert employees of a lockdown, went off after shots had been fired and youngsters began to hide underneath their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a normal day until my trainer mentioned we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was capturing 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,” and then began to shoot. 

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

He defined that he survived by playing dead after he obtained hit in 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 had been evacuated. Within the rushed exit, Samuel saw the bodies of his instructor and different pupils.

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

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

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

In a information convention Thursday, Texas officers walked back previously released information, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a faculty police officer and entered the varsity building unobstructed.

Police now say it took over an hour from the primary 911 name to cease the massacre.

Officials shared a brand new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a vehicle close to the varsity and shot at two folks outside a funeral dwelling across the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers stated 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 were on the scene. The primary officers on the scene called for backup, however tactical teams didn’t arrive until about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Department of Public Security, mentioned Thursday.

Texas investigators informed NBC News victims of the shooting were found in 4 lecture 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 home to a large Latino community.

Dad and mom and family members who had been gathered outdoors Robb Elementary throughout the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their youngsters.

Angeli Rose Gomez told 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 mentioned to the paper. “They have been just standing exterior the fence. They weren’t going in there or working anywhere.” 

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

Marshals advised NBC News in a press release that deputy marshals “never arrested or placed anyone in handcuffs whereas securing the crime scene perimeter.”

“Our deputy marshals maintained order and peace within the midst of the grief-stricken group that was gathering across the school."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.