4th grade survivor of Texas faculty shooting describes gunman’s words earlier than opening fire

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

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

She said the gunman looked at one of her teachers in the eye and said, “Good night” earlier than capturing her.

Miah instructed her story by way of a CNN producer. She didn't want to speak on camera and declined to talk to any men following her experience with the varsity capturing and only felt comfortable chatting with women, the broadcaster said. NBC Information could not immediately verify the account.

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

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

When asked what the music was, she said it appeared like, “I want folks to die music.”

Miah mentioned that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a friend’s blood on herself to look lifeless. She additionally said she and a pal grabbed their trainer’s phone and known as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship help as a result of we’re in hassle.” 

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

A Robb Elementary instructor, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, instructed NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert workers of a lockdown, went off after photographs were fired and children started to hide beneath their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a normal day till my instructor said we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was shooting in the 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,” after which started to shoot. 

“He shot the teacher after which he shot the kids,” Samuel said. 

He explained that he survived by enjoying lifeless after he bought 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 lifeless so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

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

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

The investigation into the taking pictures is ongoing, and plenty of 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 convention Thursday, Texas officers walked back previously 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 primary 911 name to stop the massacre.

Officials shared a new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a car close to the college and shot at two folks outside a funeral house across the road, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers mentioned the first 911 call came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the varsity 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police have been on the scene. The first 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 Department of Public Safety, said Thursday.

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

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

Dad and mom and family members who were gathered outdoors Robb Elementary during the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and shield their youngsters.

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

“The police were doing nothing,” she stated to the paper. “They have been just standing outdoors the fence. They weren’t stepping into there or running anyplace.” 

She mentioned at first she waited patiently then when she grew to become more fervent along with her pleas, U.S. marshals allegedly arrested her for intervening in an active investigation. 

Marshals instructed NBC Information in a statement that deputy marshals “by no means arrested or positioned anyone in handcuffs while securing the crime scene perimeter.”

“Our deputy marshals maintained order and peace in 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.