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

Survivors of the Texas elementary school shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie final words of "Good night" and "You're all gonna die" earlier than opening fire, and how some performed dead to be spared within the spray of bullets.

Fourth grade student Miah Cerrillo, 11, advised CNN her class was watching “Lilo and Sew” 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 mentioned, “Good night time” before taking pictures her.

Miah told her story by means of a CNN producer. She didn't wish to communicate on digital camera and declined to talk to any males following her expertise with the varsity capturing and solely felt comfy talking to women, the broadcaster mentioned. NBC News couldn't instantly confirm the account.

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

After firing photographs in her classroom, the shooter went into the adjoining classroom and opened fire, Miah stated. She said she heard “sad music” playing, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

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

Within the Tuesday horror, 19 children and two teachers were killed, and one other 17 had been wounded.

A Robb Elementary teacher, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, instructed NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert employees of a lockdown, went off after pictures were fired and children began to hide underneath their desks in the class. 

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

“It was a traditional day till my trainer mentioned we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was shooting within the windows,” he mentioned 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,” and then started to shoot. 

“He shot the instructor and then he shot the kids,” Samuel stated. 

He explained that he survived by playing dead after he got 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 finally entered the room and shot the gunman, the children have been evacuated. In the rushed exit, Samuel saw the bodies of his trainer and different pupils.

“There was blood on the bottom,” he mentioned. “And there have been youngsters ... stuffed with blood.” 

The investigation into the taking pictures is ongoing, and lots of questions stay 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 beforehand launched information, 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 name to stop the massacre.

Officers shared a brand new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a vehicle close to the varsity and shot at two individuals outdoors a funeral house across the road, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers said the primary 911 call came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the school 10 minutes later and four minutes later police had been on the scene. The first officers on the scene called for backup, but tactical teams didn’t arrive till about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Department of Public Security, stated Thursday.

Texas investigators told NBC Information victims of the capturing were found in 4 classrooms.

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

Dad and mom and family members who have been gathered exterior Robb Elementary throughout the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their children.

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

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

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 instructed NBC Information in a statement 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 in the midst of the grief-stricken community that was gathering around the college."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.