4th grade survivor of Texas faculty taking pictures describes gunman’s words earlier than opening hearth

Survivors of the Texas elementary school shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie closing words of "Good night" and "You are all gonna die" before opening fire, and how some performed useless to be spared within 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 stated the gunman looked at one in all her teachers in the eye and mentioned, “Good night” earlier than capturing her.

Miah instructed her story by a CNN producer. She did not need to speak on camera and declined to talk to any males following her experience with the college shooting and solely felt comfy chatting with women, the broadcaster stated. NBC News could not instantly 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 mentioned she heard “unhappy music” playing, believing the gunman put it on. 

When requested what the music was, she mentioned it seemed like, “I want people to die music.”

Miah said that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a friend’s blood on herself to look dead. She also said she and a pal grabbed their trainer’s phone and known as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send help as a result of we’re in bother.” 

Within the Tuesday horror, 19 youngsters and two lecturers have been killed, and another 17 were wounded.

A Robb Elementary teacher, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, informed NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert staff of a lockdown, went off after pictures were fired and youngsters started to cover underneath their desks in the class. 

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

“It was a traditional day till my instructor mentioned we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was capturing within the home windows,” he stated 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,” after which began to shoot. 

“He shot the trainer after which he shot the children,” Samuel said. 

He defined that he survived by enjoying lifeless 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 said. “I performed dead so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

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

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

The investigation into the taking pictures 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 at the scene.

In a information conference Thursday, Texas officials walked back beforehand released data, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a college police officer and entered the college building unobstructed.

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

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

Officials mentioned the primary 911 call came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the school 10 minutes later and four minutes later police were on the scene. The primary officers on the scene called 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, said Thursday.

Texas investigators informed NBC News victims of the shooting had been found in 4 classrooms.

Robb Elementary serves second by way of 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 family members who were gathered outside Robb Elementary through the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and shield their kids.

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

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

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

Marshals informed NBC News in a statement 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 in the midst of the grief-stricken group that was gathering around the school."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.