4th grade survivor of Texas college capturing describes gunman’s words earlier than opening fireplace

Survivors of the Texas elementary college shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie remaining phrases of "Good night" and "You are all gonna die" before opening fire, and the way some performed dead to be spared within 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 said the gunman looked at one in every of her lecturers in the eye and said, “Good night” before capturing her.

Miah advised her story through a CNN producer. She didn't want to speak on digital camera and declined to speak to any males following her expertise with the college capturing and solely felt snug speaking to girls, 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 shots in her classroom, the shooter went into the adjoining classroom and opened hearth, Miah said. She mentioned she heard “sad music” taking part in, believing the gunman put it on. 

When requested what the music was, she stated it appeared like, “I need people to die music.”

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

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

A Robb Elementary teacher, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, advised NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert employees of a lockdown, went off after pictures have been fired and kids started to cover beneath their desks in the class. 

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

“It was a normal day till my instructor mentioned we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was shooting in the home windows,” he stated 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 began to shoot. 

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

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

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

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

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

The investigation into the capturing is ongoing, and many questions remain as to why it took police so long to take out the gunman.

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

In a news conference Thursday, Texas officials walked back beforehand 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 primary 911 call to cease the bloodbath.

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 people exterior a funeral dwelling across the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officials stated the primary 911 call got here in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the college 10 minutes later and four minutes later police were on the scene. The first officers on the scene referred to as for backup, however tactical groups didn’t arrive until about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Department of Public Security, said Thursday.

Texas investigators told NBC News victims of the taking pictures have been present in 4 classrooms.

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

Dad and mom and loved ones who had been gathered outdoors Robb Elementary in the course of the taking pictures begged and shouted at police to enter and shield their youngsters.

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

“The police were doing nothing,” she said to the paper. “They were just standing exterior the fence. They weren’t going in there or operating anywhere.” 

She stated 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 informed 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 in the midst of the grief-stricken neighborhood that was gathering across the school."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.