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

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

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

She mentioned the gunman checked out one of her academics in the eye and stated, “Good night time” earlier than taking pictures her.

Miah informed her story via a CNN producer. She didn't wish to converse on camera and declined to speak to any males following her expertise with the varsity taking pictures and only felt comfortable chatting with women, the broadcaster stated. NBC News couldn't immediately confirm 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 fire, Miah stated. She mentioned she heard “sad music” playing, believing the gunman put it on. 

When requested what the music was, she mentioned it appeared like, “I want folks to die music.”

Miah said that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a good friend’s blood on herself to look useless. She also said she and a pal grabbed their instructor’s cellphone and referred to as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send assist because we’re in bother.” 

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

A Robb Elementary trainer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, instructed NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert workers of a lockdown, went off after shots were fired and children started to cover under their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a normal day till my trainer mentioned we’re on extreme lockdown” and “then there was shooting in the 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,” and then began to shoot. 

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

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

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

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

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

The investigation into the capturing is ongoing, and lots of questions stay 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 news conference Thursday, Texas officials walked back beforehand released data, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a faculty police officer and entered the school constructing unobstructed.

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

Officials shared a new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a automobile close to the school and shot at two folks outside a funeral home throughout the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officials mentioned the first 911 call got here in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the college 10 minutes later and four minutes later police have been on the scene. The first 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 Division of Public Security, stated Thursday.

Texas investigators advised NBC Information victims of the shooting were found in four lecture rooms.

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

Mother and father and family members who were gathered exterior Robb Elementary throughout the taking pictures begged and shouted at police to enter and shield their kids.

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

“The police had been doing nothing,” she said to the paper. “They were simply standing outdoors the fence. They weren’t entering into there or working anyplace.” 

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 active investigation. 

Marshals advised NBC News in an announcement that deputy marshals “by no means arrested or positioned 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 around the faculty."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.