4th grade survivor of Texas school taking pictures describes gunman’s phrases earlier than opening fireplace

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

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

She said the gunman looked at considered one of her academics in the eye and mentioned, “Good night” before taking pictures her.

Miah instructed her story through a CNN producer. She did not wish to speak on digicam and declined to speak to any males following her experience with the varsity taking pictures and solely felt comfortable speaking to ladies, the broadcaster said. NBC Information could not immediately verify 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 fire, Miah said. She said she heard “sad music” playing, believing the gunman put it on. 

When asked what the music was, she said it gave the impression of, “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 also stated she and a friend grabbed their instructor’s cellphone and referred to as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send help because we’re in bother.” 

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

A Robb Elementary instructor, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, advised NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert employees of a lockdown, went off after shots were fired and kids began to cover below their desks in the class. 

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

“It was a traditional day until my teacher stated we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was shooting in the home windows,” he stated 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,” after which began to shoot. 

“He shot the instructor after which he shot the children,” Samuel mentioned. 

He explained that he survived by enjoying dead after he obtained hit in the leg with shrapnel that hit a chair between him and the shooter.

“I think he was aiming at me,” Samuel mentioned. “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 trainer and different pupils.

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

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

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

In a news conference Thursday, Texas officers walked back beforehand launched info, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a school police officer and entered the school constructing unobstructed.

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

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

Officers said the primary 911 call came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the school 10 minutes later and four minutes later police were on the scene. The primary officers on the scene known as for backup, but tactical teams didn’t arrive till about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Department of Public Security, said Thursday.

Texas investigators advised NBC News victims of the shooting have been found in 4 school rooms.

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

Parents and family members who had been gathered outside Robb Elementary during the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and shield their kids.

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

“The police had been doing nothing,” she stated to the paper. “They have been simply standing outdoors the fence. They weren’t going in there or working anywhere.” 

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 News in an announcement that deputy marshals “by no means arrested or placed anyone in handcuffs while securing the crime scene perimeter.”

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

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.