4th grade survivor of Texas school capturing describes gunman’s phrases earlier than opening hearth

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

Fourth grade pupil 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 checked out one among her teachers within the eye and said, “Good evening” earlier than capturing her.

Miah advised her story through a CNN producer. She didn't need to speak on digicam and declined to speak to any men following her experience with the varsity capturing and only felt snug talking to girls, the broadcaster mentioned. NBC News couldn't instantly confirm the account.

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

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

When asked what the music was, she stated it gave the impression of, “I want people to die music.”

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

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

A Robb Elementary trainer, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, advised NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert workers of a lockdown, went off after pictures were fired and kids started to cover beneath their desks in the class. 

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

“It was a traditional day until my teacher said we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was shooting in the home 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 began to shoot. 

“He shot the teacher after which he shot the youngsters,” Samuel mentioned. 

He explained that he survived by taking part in lifeless after he received hit in the leg with shrapnel that hit a chair between him and the shooter.

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

When police lastly entered the room and shot the gunman, the children 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 have been kids ... filled with blood.” 

The investigation into the capturing is ongoing, and lots 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 news conference Thursday, Texas officers walked back beforehand released information, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a school police officer and entered the varsity constructing unobstructed.

Police now say it took over an hour from the primary 911 call to cease the massacre.

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

Officials stated the primary 911 name 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 first officers on the scene known as for backup, however tactical groups 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 informed NBC Information victims of the capturing had been present in 4 classrooms.

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

Parents and loved ones who have been gathered outside Robb Elementary in the course of the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their children.

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

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

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

Marshals told NBC Information in a statement 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 faculty."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.