4th grade survivor of Texas college capturing describes gunman’s words earlier than opening fireplace

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

Fourth grade scholar Miah Cerrillo, 11, told 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 of her lecturers within the eye and stated, “Good evening” earlier than taking pictures her.

Miah informed her story by means of a CNN producer. She didn't wish to speak on digital camera and declined to talk to any men following her expertise with the college capturing and solely felt comfortable chatting with ladies, the broadcaster mentioned. NBC News couldn't immediately confirm the account.

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

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

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

Miah mentioned that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a buddy’s blood on herself to look useless. She additionally mentioned she and a good friend grabbed their teacher’s phone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship assist because we’re in trouble.” 

In the Tuesday horror, 19 kids and two teachers were 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 workers of a lockdown, went off after shots had been fired and kids started to cover below their desks in the class. 

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

“It was a standard day until my instructor mentioned we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was taking pictures within the home windows,” he said in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Friday.

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

“He shot the instructor and then he shot the youngsters,” Samuel mentioned. 

He explained that he survived by enjoying lifeless after he obtained hit within 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 finally entered the room and shot the gunman, the children were evacuated. Within the rushed exit, Samuel noticed the bodies of his instructor and different pupils.

“There was blood on the ground,” he mentioned. “And there were kids ... full of blood.” 

The investigation into the capturing is ongoing, and many 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 conference Thursday, Texas officers walked again previously released information, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a college police officer and entered the school building unobstructed.

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

Officers shared a brand new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a automobile near the varsity and shot at two individuals outdoors 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 varsity 10 minutes later and four minutes later police have been on the scene. The first officers on the scene referred to as for backup, however tactical teams didn’t arrive till about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Department of Public Safety, stated Thursday.

Texas investigators told NBC News victims of the taking pictures have been found in 4 lecture rooms.

Robb Elementary serves second by way of fourth grade students within the small city of Uvalde, which is about 75 miles from the Mexico borders and home to a large Latino community.

Dad and mom and family members who had been gathered outdoors Robb Elementary through the capturing 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 outside the school for repeatedly demanding police enter the varsity. 

“The police were doing nothing,” she stated to the paper. “They were simply standing outdoors the fence. They weren’t stepping into there or operating anyplace.” 

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 told NBC News in an announcement that deputy marshals “by no means arrested or positioned anyone in handcuffs while securing the crime scene perimeter.”

“Our deputy marshals maintained order and peace within the midst of the grief-stricken group that was gathering across the faculty."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.