4th grade survivor of Texas college shooting describes gunman’s phrases before opening fireplace

Survivors of the Texas elementary faculty shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie final phrases of "Good night" and "You are all gonna die" earlier than opening hearth, and the way some performed dead to be spared within the spray of bullets.

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

She mentioned the gunman looked at one in every of her lecturers in the eye and said, “Good night time” earlier than taking pictures her.

Miah advised her story via a CNN producer. She didn't want to communicate on digicam and declined to talk to any men following her expertise with the varsity capturing and solely felt comfy talking to girls, the broadcaster mentioned. NBC Information could not instantly confirm the account.

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

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

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

Miah mentioned that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a good friend’s blood on herself to look lifeless. She also said she and a friend grabbed their trainer’s cellphone and referred to as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send assist as a result of we’re in bother.” 

Within the Tuesday horror, 19 children and two lecturers were killed, and another 17 were wounded.

A Robb Elementary trainer, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, advised NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert staff of a lockdown, went off after photographs had been fired and children began to hide below their desks in the class. 

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

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

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

“He shot the teacher after which he shot the children,” Samuel mentioned. 

He explained that he survived by taking part in useless after he obtained hit within the leg with shrapnel that hit a chair between him and the shooter.

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

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

“There was blood on the bottom,” he said. “And there were children ... full of blood.” 

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

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

In a news convention Thursday, Texas officers walked again previously launched info, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a faculty police officer and entered the varsity building unobstructed.

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

Officials shared a brand new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a automobile close to the college and shot at two people outside a funeral dwelling throughout the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officials mentioned the first 911 name came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the school 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police had 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, said Thursday.

Texas investigators advised NBC Information victims of the taking pictures were present in four lecture rooms.

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

Parents and family members who have been gathered outside Robb Elementary in the course of the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their kids.

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

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

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

Marshals instructed NBC Information in an announcement that deputy marshals “never arrested or positioned anybody 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 around the faculty."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.