4th grade survivor of Texas college taking pictures describes gunman’s words earlier than opening fire

Survivors of the Texas elementary school shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie ultimate words of "Good night time" and "You're all gonna die" before opening hearth, 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 Sew” when the shooter appeared Tuesday at Robb Elementary in Uvalde.

She stated the gunman looked at one in all her teachers within the eye and stated, “Good night” earlier than capturing her.

Miah advised her story via a CNN producer. She did not need to speak on camera and declined to talk to any men following her expertise with the varsity capturing and solely felt comfy speaking to girls, the broadcaster mentioned. NBC News could not instantly verify the account.

Miah herself was hit by fragments within the hail of bullets, CNN reported.

After firing photographs in her classroom, the shooter went into the adjoining classroom and opened fire, Miah mentioned. She stated she heard “unhappy music” playing, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

Miah said that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a pal’s blood on herself to look dead. She also mentioned she and a pal grabbed their instructor’s telephone and referred to as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship assist as a result of we’re in bother.” 

Within the Tuesday horror, 19 youngsters and two academics had been killed, and one other 17 had been wounded.

A Robb Elementary teacher, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, informed NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert staff of a lockdown, went off after pictures have been fired and children began to hide below their desks within the class. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The investigation into the taking pictures is ongoing, and plenty of questions stay as to why it took police so long to take out the gunman.

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

In a information convention Thursday, Texas officers walked back previously launched information, 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 first 911 call to cease the massacre.

Officials shared a brand new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a car near the varsity and shot at two folks exterior a funeral residence throughout the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers mentioned the first 911 call got here in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the varsity 10 minutes later and four minutes later police had 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, said Thursday.

Texas investigators advised NBC News victims of the capturing were present in four school rooms.

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

Parents and family members who had been gathered outside Robb Elementary in the course of the taking pictures begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their children.

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

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

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

Marshals advised NBC Information in an announcement that deputy marshals “never arrested or placed anyone 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 faculty."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.