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

Survivors of the Texas elementary school shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie closing phrases of "Good night" and "You are all gonna die" earlier than opening fireplace, and the way some played lifeless to be spared within the spray of bullets.

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

She said the gunman checked out one among her lecturers in the eye and stated, “Good evening” before shooting her.

Miah instructed her story by means of a CNN producer. She didn't want to speak on digicam and declined to talk to any males following her experience with the school taking pictures and only felt comfy chatting with girls, the broadcaster mentioned. NBC News couldn't immediately 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 hearth, Miah said. She stated she heard “sad music” enjoying, believing the gunman put it on. 

When requested what the music was, she said it appeared like, “I want individuals 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 buddy grabbed their instructor’s phone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship help as a result of we’re in bother.” 

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

A Robb Elementary trainer, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, told NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert workers of a lockdown, went off after photographs had been fired and kids started to cover under their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a normal day until my trainer said we’re on extreme lockdown” and “then there was capturing in the windows,” he stated in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Friday.

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

“He shot the trainer and then he shot the youngsters,” Samuel said. 

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

“I think he was aiming at me,” Samuel stated. “I played lifeless so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

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

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

The investigation into the capturing 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 information conference Thursday, Texas officials walked back previously released data, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a college police officer and entered the varsity building 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 close to the college and shot at two people exterior a funeral dwelling across the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

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

Texas investigators told NBC Information victims of the shooting have been present in four school rooms.

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

Parents and loved ones who had been gathered outside Robb Elementary through the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and shield their youngsters.

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

“The police have been doing nothing,” she mentioned to the paper. “They were just standing exterior the fence. They weren’t getting in there or operating wherever.” 

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

Marshals informed NBC News in an announcement that deputy marshals “by no means arrested or placed anybody in handcuffs whereas securing the crime scene perimeter.”

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

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.