4th grade survivor of Texas school taking pictures describes gunman’s phrases earlier than opening fireplace

Survivors of the Texas elementary college taking pictures are recounting the gunman's eerie final phrases of "Good night time" and "You are all gonna die" earlier than opening hearth, and the way some performed useless to be spared in the spray of bullets.

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

She stated the gunman looked at certainly one of her teachers in the eye and said, “Good night” before taking pictures her.

Miah instructed her story through a CNN producer. She didn't wish to converse on digital camera and declined to speak to any males following her experience with the school capturing and only felt comfy speaking to girls, the broadcaster stated. NBC Information couldn't instantly 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 stated. She mentioned she heard “sad music” playing, believing the gunman put it on. 

When asked what the music was, she stated it sounded like, “I would like people to die music.”

Miah said that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a pal’s blood on herself to look lifeless. She also said she and a buddy grabbed their trainer’s cellphone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship assist because we’re in bother.” 

Within the Tuesday horror, 19 kids and two lecturers have been killed, and one other 17 were wounded.

A Robb Elementary instructor, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert employees of a lockdown, went off after photographs were fired and youngsters began to cover below their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a traditional day till my instructor stated we’re on extreme lockdown” and “then there was capturing in the windows,” he said 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 after which he shot the youngsters,” Samuel said. 

He defined that he survived by enjoying lifeless after he received hit within the leg with shrapnel that hit a chair between him and the shooter.

“I feel he was aiming at me,” Samuel mentioned. “I played useless so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

When police finally entered the room and shot the gunman, the youngsters had been evacuated. Within the rushed exit, Samuel noticed the bodies of his trainer and different pupils.

“There was blood on the bottom,” he stated. “And there were youngsters ... filled with blood.” 

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

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

In a information conference Thursday, Texas officers walked back beforehand released data, 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 first 911 call to stop the bloodbath.

Officials shared a brand new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a car near the school and shot at two individuals exterior a funeral house across the road, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers said the first 911 call got here in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the varsity 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police have been on the scene. The first officers on the scene referred to as for backup, however tactical groups 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 informed NBC Information victims of the taking pictures were found in 4 lecture rooms.

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

Mother and father and family members who were gathered exterior Robb Elementary throughout the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their kids.

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

“The police have been doing nothing,” she said to the paper. “They were simply standing outside the fence. They weren’t stepping into there or running anyplace.” 

She mentioned 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 active investigation. 

Marshals told NBC News in a press release that deputy marshals “never 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 neighborhood that was gathering around the school."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.