4th grade survivor of Texas school capturing describes gunman’s phrases earlier than opening fire

Survivors of the Texas elementary college shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie final words of "Good night" and "You are all gonna die" earlier than opening hearth, and the way some played lifeless to be spared in the spray of bullets.

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

She mentioned the gunman checked out one in every of her teachers within the eye and stated, “Good night” earlier than shooting her.

Miah instructed her story via a CNN producer. She did not want to communicate on camera and declined to talk to any males following her expertise with the varsity taking pictures and only felt comfy speaking to girls, the broadcaster stated. NBC News couldn't instantly verify the account.

Miah herself was hit by fragments in 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 mentioned she heard “sad music” enjoying, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

Miah stated that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a good friend’s blood on herself to look useless. She additionally stated she and a good friend grabbed their teacher’s phone and referred to as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send help as a result of we’re in trouble.” 

In the Tuesday horror, 19 children and two lecturers were killed, and one other 17 were wounded.

A Robb Elementary trainer, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, advised NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert employees of a lockdown, went off after shots have been fired and children began to hide below their desks in the class. 

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

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

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

“He shot the instructor and then he shot the children,” Samuel said. 

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

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

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

The investigation into the shooting is ongoing, and lots of questions remain 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 back previously launched info, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a college police officer and entered the school constructing unobstructed.

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

Officials 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 individuals outside a funeral dwelling throughout the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officials stated the first 911 call got here in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the school 10 minutes later and four minutes later police have been on the scene. The primary officers on the scene known as for backup, however tactical teams 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 instructed NBC News victims of the shooting have been found in 4 school rooms.

Robb Elementary serves second by way of fourth grade college students in the small city of Uvalde, which is about 75 miles from the Mexico borders and residential to a big Latino group.

Dad and mom and loved ones who were gathered outside Robb Elementary throughout the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and shield their kids.

Angeli Rose Gomez instructed The Wall Avenue Journal she was handcuffed by U.S. marshals outdoors the school for repeatedly demanding police enter the college. 

“The police had been doing nothing,” she mentioned to the paper. “They were just standing outside the fence. They weren’t getting into there or working anyplace.” 

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

Marshals advised NBC Information in a statement that deputy marshals “never arrested or placed anybody in handcuffs while 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 faculty."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.