4th grade survivor of Texas school shooting describes gunman’s phrases before opening hearth

Survivors of the Texas elementary college capturing are recounting the gunman's eerie remaining phrases of "Good night" and "You're all gonna die" earlier than opening fire, and the way some performed lifeless to be spared in 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 considered one of her teachers in the eye and stated, “Good evening” earlier than taking pictures her.

Miah told her story through a CNN producer. She didn't need to converse on digicam and declined to talk to any men following her experience with the varsity shooting and only felt comfortable speaking to girls, the broadcaster said. NBC Information couldn't immediately verify 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 hearth, Miah mentioned. She mentioned she heard “unhappy music” taking part in, 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 opposite room she smeared a pal’s blood on herself to look lifeless. She additionally said she and a pal grabbed their trainer’s telephone and referred to as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship assist as a result of we’re in trouble.” 

In the Tuesday horror, 19 children and two lecturers had been killed, and one other 17 have 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 photographs had been fired and kids began to hide beneath their desks in the class. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

“There was blood on the bottom,” he said. “And there were kids ... stuffed with blood.” 

The investigation into the capturing is ongoing, and plenty 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 officers walked again beforehand launched information, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a faculty police officer and entered the varsity constructing unobstructed.

Police now say it took over an hour from the first 911 name to stop the massacre.

Officials shared a brand new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a automobile close to the varsity and shot at two people exterior a funeral residence across the road, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officials said the primary 911 call got here in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the college 10 minutes later and four minutes later police had been on the scene. The primary officers on the scene known as for backup, however tactical teams didn’t arrive until about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Division of Public Security, mentioned Thursday.

Texas investigators told NBC News victims of the taking pictures had been found in 4 school rooms.

Robb Elementary serves second by way of fourth grade college students in the small town of Uvalde, which is about 75 miles from the Mexico borders and home to a large Latino neighborhood.

Mother and father and family members who have been gathered exterior Robb Elementary throughout the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their children.

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

“The police had been doing nothing,” she stated to the paper. “They had been just standing exterior the fence. They weren’t going in there or running wherever.” 

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

Marshals advised NBC News in a statement that deputy marshals “never arrested or positioned anybody 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 across the faculty."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.