4th grade survivor of Texas college shooting describes gunman’s words before opening hearth

Survivors of the Texas elementary college capturing are recounting the gunman's eerie remaining words of "Good night time" and "You are all gonna die" earlier than opening fire, and how some played useless to be spared within the spray of bullets.

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

She stated the gunman looked at one of her lecturers in the eye and mentioned, “Good evening” earlier than taking pictures her.

Miah advised her story by a CNN producer. She did not want to speak on camera and declined to speak to any men following her experience with the varsity shooting and only felt comfortable speaking to women, the broadcaster stated. 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 stated. She mentioned she heard “unhappy music” playing, believing the gunman put it on. 

When requested what the music was, she stated it seemed like, “I want individuals to die music.”

Miah mentioned 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 pal grabbed their teacher’s cellphone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship help because we’re in hassle.” 

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

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

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

“It was a standard day until my instructor stated we’re on extreme lockdown” and “then there was taking pictures within the home windows,” he mentioned in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Friday.

He stated that the gunman barged into the classroom, introduced, “You’re all gonna die,” after which started to shoot. 

“He shot the instructor and then he shot the youngsters,” Samuel mentioned. 

He defined that he survived by taking part in dead after he acquired hit in the leg with shrapnel that hit a chair between him and the shooter.

“I feel he was aiming at me,” Samuel said. “I played useless so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

When police lastly entered the room and shot the gunman, the youngsters have been evacuated. In the rushed exit, Samuel noticed the bodies of his instructor and other pupils.

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

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

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

Officers 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 people exterior a funeral residence across the road, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

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

Texas investigators informed NBC Information victims of the capturing were found in four school rooms.

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

Parents and loved ones who have been gathered outdoors Robb Elementary through the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their children.

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

“The police had been doing nothing,” she said to the paper. “They have been simply standing outdoors the fence. They weren’t going in there or running wherever.” 

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

Marshals told NBC News in an announcement that deputy marshals “by no means arrested or placed anybody in handcuffs while 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 school."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.