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

Survivors of the Texas elementary school capturing are recounting the gunman's eerie final phrases of "Good night" and "You're all gonna die" earlier than opening fireplace, and the way some played dead to be spared within the spray of bullets.

Fourth grade student 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 among her teachers in the eye and said, “Good night” before shooting her.

Miah told her story via a CNN producer. She did not need to speak on camera and declined to speak to any men following her expertise with the school taking pictures and only felt comfortable speaking to ladies, the broadcaster stated. NBC Information could not immediately confirm the account.

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

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

When requested what the music was, she mentioned it sounded like, “I need individuals to die music.”

Miah stated that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a friend’s blood on herself to look dead. She also mentioned she and a pal grabbed their instructor’s cellphone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send help because we’re in bother.” 

Within the Tuesday horror, 19 children and two teachers had been killed, and another 17 had been wounded.

A Robb Elementary teacher, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, informed NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert workers of a lockdown, went off after shots had been fired and youngsters began to cover below their desks within the class. 

Samuel Salinas, 10, was a scholar in instructor Irma Garcia’s class on Tuesday when the school shooting unfolded.

“It was a standard day until my trainer said we’re on extreme lockdown” and “then there was shooting within 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,” after which started to shoot. 

“He shot the instructor after which he shot the kids,” Samuel said. 

He explained that he survived by enjoying useless after he received 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 performed dead so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

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

“There was blood on the bottom,” he said. “And there have been children ... full of blood.” 

The investigation into the taking pictures is ongoing, and many questions stay as to why it took police so lengthy 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 constructing unobstructed.

Police now say it took over an hour from the primary 911 call to stop the massacre.

Officers shared a new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a car close to the college and shot at two individuals outside a funeral house throughout the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers mentioned the primary 911 name got here in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the varsity 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police were on the scene. The first officers on the scene referred to as for backup, but tactical teams didn’t arrive till about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Department of Public Security, said Thursday.

Texas investigators instructed NBC Information victims of the capturing have been present in four school rooms.

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

Parents and loved ones who were gathered outdoors Robb Elementary in the course of the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their youngsters.

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

“The police have been doing nothing,” she mentioned to the paper. “They had been simply standing outside the fence. They weren’t entering into there or running anywhere.” 

She mentioned at first she waited patiently then when she became more fervent with her pleas, U.S. marshals allegedly arrested her for intervening in an active investigation. 

Marshals advised NBC Information in a statement that deputy marshals “never arrested or positioned anyone 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 across the school."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.