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

Survivors of the Texas elementary faculty taking pictures are recounting the gunman's eerie last phrases of "Good night" and "You're all gonna die" earlier than opening fireplace, and how some performed dead to be spared in the spray of bullets.

Fourth grade scholar 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 checked out one in all her lecturers in the eye and stated, “Good evening” earlier than shooting her.

Miah instructed her story by way of a CNN producer. She didn't want to speak on digital camera and declined to speak to any men following her expertise with the varsity taking pictures and only felt comfortable chatting with girls, the broadcaster said. NBC Information could not immediately confirm the account.

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

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

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

Miah stated 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 telephone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship assist because we’re in hassle.” 

Within the Tuesday horror, 19 children and two teachers were killed, and another 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 employees of a lockdown, went off after shots have been fired and youngsters started to hide beneath their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a normal day till my instructor stated 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 said that the gunman barged into the classroom, introduced, “You’re all gonna die,” after which began to shoot. 

“He shot the instructor and then he shot the kids,” Samuel mentioned. 

He defined that he survived by enjoying 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 useless so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

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

“There was blood on the ground,” he said. “And there have been children ... stuffed with 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 news conference Thursday, Texas officials walked again beforehand released data, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a college police officer and entered the varsity constructing unobstructed.

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

Officers shared a new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a vehicle near the school and shot at two people outdoors a funeral home across the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

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

Texas investigators informed NBC News victims of the shooting were found in 4 school rooms.

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

Mother and father and loved ones who were gathered outdoors Robb Elementary during the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their kids.

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

“The police have been doing nothing,” she stated to the paper. “They were simply standing exterior the fence. They weren’t moving into there or running wherever.” 

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

Marshals told NBC Information in an announcement that deputy marshals “by no means arrested or positioned anyone in handcuffs whereas securing the crime scene perimeter.”

“Our deputy marshals maintained order and peace within 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.