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

Survivors of the Texas elementary college shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie last phrases of "Good night time" and "You are all gonna die" earlier than opening hearth, and the way some played dead to be spared in the spray of bullets.

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

She mentioned the gunman looked at one in every of her lecturers in the eye and said, “Good night time” before shooting her.

Miah informed her story by way of a CNN producer. She did not need to converse on camera and declined to speak to any males following her experience with the varsity capturing and solely felt snug speaking to ladies, the broadcaster mentioned. NBC News couldn't instantly confirm 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 fireplace, Miah mentioned. She mentioned she heard “sad music” playing, believing the gunman put it on. 

When requested what the music was, she mentioned it seemed like, “I would like individuals to die music.”

Miah stated that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a friend’s blood on herself to look useless. She additionally mentioned she and a buddy grabbed their trainer’s cellphone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship help because we’re in bother.” 

In the Tuesday horror, 19 kids and two teachers were killed, and one other 17 have been wounded.

A Robb Elementary instructor, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, informed NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert workers of a lockdown, went off after pictures have been fired and youngsters began to hide under their desks in the class. 

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

“It was a standard day until my instructor said we’re on extreme 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 started to shoot. 

“He shot the instructor after which he shot the kids,” Samuel stated. 

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

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

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

“There was blood on the ground,” he said. “And there have been youngsters ... stuffed with blood.” 

The investigation into the taking pictures is ongoing, and lots of questions stay 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 again beforehand released info, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a college 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 new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a automobile near the varsity and shot at two folks outdoors a funeral house across the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers said the primary 911 name got here in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the college 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police were 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 Division of Public Safety, stated Thursday.

Texas investigators instructed NBC News victims of the capturing had been found in four classrooms.

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

Parents and family members who have been gathered outside Robb Elementary throughout the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their youngsters.

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

“The police were doing nothing,” she mentioned to the paper. “They had been simply standing outside the fence. They weren’t moving into there or working anywhere.” 

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

Marshals instructed NBC Information in a statement 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 college."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.