4th grade survivor of Texas college capturing describes gunman’s phrases earlier than opening fire

Survivors of the Texas elementary college shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie ultimate words of "Good night time" and "You are all gonna die" before opening fireplace, and how some performed dead to be spared in the spray of bullets.

Fourth grade scholar 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 looked at one in every of her teachers within the eye and said, “Good night time” before capturing her.

Miah advised her story by way of a CNN producer. She didn't wish to communicate on digicam and declined to talk to any males following her experience with the varsity shooting and only felt comfortable speaking to girls, the broadcaster said. NBC News 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 fireplace, Miah said. She mentioned she heard “sad music” playing, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

Miah stated that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a friend’s blood on herself to look useless. She additionally said she and a good friend grabbed their teacher’s telephone and known as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship assist because we’re in hassle.” 

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

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

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

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

He said 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 kids,” Samuel mentioned. 

He defined that he survived by playing useless after he acquired hit in the leg with shrapnel that hit a chair between him and the shooter.

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

When police lastly entered the room and shot the gunman, the kids had been evacuated. In the rushed exit, Samuel noticed the bodies of his instructor and different pupils.

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

The investigation into the capturing 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 on the scene.

In a information convention Thursday, Texas officers walked back previously released data, 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 cease the bloodbath.

Officials shared a brand new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a automobile near the college and shot at two folks exterior a funeral home throughout the road, 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 4 minutes later police had been on the scene. The primary officers on the scene known as for backup, but tactical groups didn’t arrive until about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Department of Public Safety, mentioned Thursday.

Texas investigators told NBC News victims of the shooting have been found in four lecture rooms.

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

Mother and father and family members who had been gathered exterior Robb Elementary during the taking pictures begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their youngsters.

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

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

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 told NBC Information in a press release that deputy marshals “by no means arrested or positioned anybody in handcuffs whereas 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 school."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.