4th grade survivor of Texas college shooting describes gunman’s words 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 played dead to be spared in 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 mentioned the gunman looked at certainly one of her academics within the eye and mentioned, “Good evening” earlier than shooting her.

Miah told her story by a CNN producer. She did not need to communicate on digital camera and declined to talk to any men following her experience with the college taking pictures and only felt comfy chatting with ladies, the broadcaster stated. NBC News could not 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 fireplace, Miah mentioned. She stated she heard “unhappy music” playing, believing the gunman put it on. 

When requested what the music was, she stated it sounded like, “I would like 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 lifeless. She additionally mentioned she and a buddy grabbed their instructor’s cellphone and known as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship assist as a result of we’re in trouble.” 

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

A Robb Elementary instructor, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, told NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert workers of a lockdown, went off after photographs have been fired and kids started to hide below their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a standard day till my instructor said we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was shooting within the home windows,” he mentioned 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,” and then began to shoot. 

“He shot the instructor and then he shot the kids,” Samuel stated. 

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

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

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

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

The investigation into the shooting 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 on the scene.

In a news conference Thursday, Texas officials walked again previously released data, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a school police officer and entered the school constructing unobstructed.

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

Officials shared a new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a vehicle near the college and shot at two people exterior a funeral home across the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers said the first 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 primary 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 instructed NBC News victims of the shooting were present in four classrooms.

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

Mother and father and family members who were gathered outside Robb Elementary through the taking pictures begged and shouted at police to enter and shield their children.

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

“The police had been doing nothing,” she stated to the paper. “They were simply standing outside the fence. They weren’t getting into there or operating wherever.” 

She stated 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 energetic investigation. 

Marshals instructed NBC Information in a press release that deputy marshals “never 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 group that was gathering around the school."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.