4th grade survivor of Texas college capturing describes gunman’s words earlier than opening fireplace

Survivors of the Texas elementary school capturing are recounting the gunman's eerie remaining phrases of "Good night" and "You're all gonna die" before opening hearth, and the way some performed dead to be spared within the spray of bullets.

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

She said the gunman checked out considered one of her lecturers in the eye and said, “Good evening” before capturing her.

Miah advised her story by a CNN producer. She did not want to converse on digicam and declined to talk to any males following her expertise with the college shooting and only felt comfortable chatting with girls, the broadcaster stated. NBC News couldn't immediately confirm the account.

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

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

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

Miah said that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a good friend’s blood on herself to look dead. She also said she and a good friend grabbed their teacher’s phone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send help as a result of we’re in bother.” 

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

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

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

“It was a standard day until my trainer stated we’re on extreme lockdown” and “then there was shooting in 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,” after which began to shoot. 

“He shot the instructor and then he shot the children,” Samuel stated. 

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

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

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

“There was blood on the bottom,” he stated. “And there have been kids ... filled with blood.” 

The investigation into the shooting is ongoing, and many questions stay 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 information convention Thursday, Texas officials walked back beforehand launched 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 first 911 call to cease the bloodbath.

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

Officials stated the primary 911 call 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, but tactical teams didn’t arrive until about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Division of Public Security, said Thursday.

Texas investigators told NBC News victims of the shooting have been present in 4 classrooms.

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

Mother and father and loved ones who had been gathered outside Robb Elementary through the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and shield their children.

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

“The police were doing nothing,” she said to the paper. “They had been simply standing outside the fence. They weren’t moving into there or operating 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 lively investigation. 

Marshals told NBC News in a press release that deputy marshals “never arrested or positioned anyone in handcuffs while securing the crime scene perimeter.”

“Our deputy marshals maintained order and peace within the midst of the grief-stricken group that was gathering across the college."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.