4th grade survivor of Texas school capturing describes gunman’s words before opening fireplace

Survivors of the Texas elementary faculty shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie last phrases of "Good night" and "You are all gonna die" earlier than opening fire, and how some performed lifeless 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 mentioned the gunman looked at one among her teachers within the eye and stated, “Good night” earlier than taking pictures her.

Miah instructed her story by a CNN producer. She did not want to communicate on digital camera and declined to speak to any males following her experience with the college capturing and solely felt comfy chatting with women, the broadcaster mentioned. NBC Information could not immediately verify 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 fireplace, Miah mentioned. She said she heard “sad music” taking part in, believing the gunman put it on. 

When requested what the music was, she said it gave the impression of, “I would like people to die music.”

Miah said that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a good friend’s blood on herself to look dead. She also said she and a pal grabbed their instructor’s telephone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send assist because we’re in trouble.” 

In the Tuesday horror, 19 children and two academics had been killed, and another 17 were wounded.

A Robb Elementary instructor, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, instructed NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert workers of a lockdown, went off after pictures had been fired and children began to cover beneath their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a traditional day till my instructor said we’re on extreme lockdown” and “then there was taking pictures in the home windows,” he stated 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 said. 

He defined that he survived by taking part in lifeless 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 stated. “I played useless so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

When police lastly entered the room and shot the gunman, the kids were evacuated. In the rushed exit, Samuel saw the our bodies of his teacher and different pupils.

“There was blood on the bottom,” he said. “And there were children ... stuffed with blood.” 

The investigation into the shooting is ongoing, and plenty of questions remain as to why it took police so lengthy to take out the gunman.

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

In a news convention Thursday, Texas officials walked back previously launched information, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a faculty police officer and entered the school constructing unobstructed.

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

Officials shared a new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a automobile near the college and shot at two folks exterior a funeral dwelling throughout the road, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers stated the primary 911 call got here in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the college 10 minutes later and four minutes later police were on the scene. The primary officers on the scene known as for backup, however tactical groups didn’t arrive till about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Department of Public Security, mentioned Thursday.

Texas investigators instructed NBC News victims of the shooting had been present in 4 school rooms.

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

Mother and father and loved ones who were gathered exterior Robb Elementary through the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their kids.

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

“The police have been doing nothing,” she stated to the paper. “They had been just standing outside the fence. They weren’t stepping into there or operating anywhere.” 

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

Marshals told NBC Information in an announcement that deputy marshals “by no means 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 around the faculty."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.