4th grade survivor of Texas school capturing describes gunman’s words earlier than opening fireplace

Survivors of the Texas elementary faculty shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie final phrases of "Good night time" and "You're all gonna die" before opening fireplace, and how some played dead to be spared within the spray of bullets.

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

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

Miah informed her story by way of a CNN producer. She did not need to communicate on camera and declined to talk to any males following her expertise with the college taking pictures and solely felt snug chatting with ladies, the broadcaster said. NBC Information 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 fireplace, Miah said. She said she heard “unhappy music” taking part in, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

Miah said that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a buddy’s blood on herself to look dead. She additionally mentioned she and a buddy grabbed their instructor’s cellphone and referred to as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send help as a result of we’re in hassle.” 

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

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

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

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

He stated that the gunman barged into the classroom, announced, “You’re all gonna die,” and then began to shoot. 

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

He defined that he survived by taking part in useless 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 mentioned. “I played useless so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

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

“There was blood on the ground,” he stated. “And there were children ... stuffed with blood.” 

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

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

In a information conference Thursday, Texas officers walked again beforehand released 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 primary 911 call to cease the bloodbath.

Officers 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 people exterior a funeral house across the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers stated the first 911 name got here in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the college 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police had been on the scene. The first officers on the scene called for backup, but tactical groups didn’t arrive till about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Division of Public Safety, mentioned Thursday.

Texas investigators told NBC News victims of the shooting were found in 4 classrooms.

Robb Elementary serves second by fourth grade students within the small city 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 had been gathered outdoors Robb Elementary in the course of the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their youngsters.

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

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

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

Marshals advised NBC News in a press release that deputy marshals “never arrested or placed anybody in handcuffs while securing the crime scene perimeter.”

“Our deputy marshals maintained order and peace in the midst of the grief-stricken group that was gathering across the faculty."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.