4th grade survivor of Texas college taking pictures 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 time" and "You're all gonna die" earlier than opening fireplace, and how some played dead to be spared within the spray of bullets.

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

She said the gunman looked at one of her teachers in the eye and said, “Good night time” earlier than shooting her.

Miah informed her story through a CNN producer. She did not wish to communicate on digicam and declined to speak to any men following her expertise with the varsity taking pictures and only felt snug talking to women, the broadcaster said. NBC Information couldn't instantly 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 “unhappy music” taking part in, believing the gunman put it on. 

When requested what the music was, she mentioned it gave the impression of, “I need people to die music.”

Miah mentioned that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a buddy’s blood on herself to look dead. She also mentioned she and a buddy grabbed their trainer’s telephone and known as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send help as a result of we’re in hassle.” 

Within the Tuesday horror, 19 children and two lecturers have been killed, and another 17 were wounded.

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

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

“It was a traditional day till my trainer said we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was capturing within the windows,” he stated in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Friday.

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

“He shot the trainer after which he shot the children,” Samuel mentioned. 

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

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

When police finally entered the room and shot the gunman, the children had been evacuated. In the rushed exit, Samuel saw the bodies of his trainer and other pupils.

“There was blood on the ground,” he said. “And there were children ... full of blood.” 

The investigation into the shooting 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 information conference Thursday, Texas officials walked back beforehand launched data, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a college police officer and entered the school building unobstructed.

Police now say it took over an hour from the primary 911 call 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 college and shot at two folks exterior a funeral dwelling throughout the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers mentioned the first 911 call came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the varsity 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police had been on the scene. The first officers on the scene known 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 Safety, stated Thursday.

Texas investigators informed NBC News victims of the shooting have been present in four school rooms.

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

Dad and mom and loved ones who have been gathered exterior Robb Elementary in the course of the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and shield their youngsters.

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

“The police were doing nothing,” she mentioned to the paper. “They were just standing outdoors the fence. They weren’t moving into there or working wherever.” 

She said at first she waited patiently then when she grew to become extra fervent along with her pleas, U.S. marshals allegedly arrested her for intervening in an active investigation. 

Marshals advised NBC Information in a press release that deputy marshals “never arrested or positioned anybody in handcuffs while securing the crime scene perimeter.”

“Our deputy marshals maintained order and peace in the midst of the grief-stricken neighborhood that was gathering around the faculty."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.