4th grade survivor of Texas faculty shooting 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're all gonna die" earlier than opening fire, and how some performed dead to be spared within 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 stated the gunman looked at one in all her teachers within the eye and said, “Good evening” before shooting her.

Miah instructed her story by means of a CNN producer. She did not want to communicate on digital camera and declined to talk to any males following her experience with the school shooting and only felt comfortable talking to women, the broadcaster said. NBC Information couldn't 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 fire, Miah said. She mentioned she heard “unhappy music” taking part in, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

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

In the Tuesday horror, 19 kids and two lecturers have been killed, and another 17 had been wounded.

A Robb Elementary teacher, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, instructed NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert staff of a lockdown, went off after photographs were fired and children started to cover below their desks in the class. 

Samuel Salinas, 10, was a pupil in teacher Irma Garcia’s class on Tuesday when the college capturing unfolded.

“It was a normal day till my instructor mentioned we’re on extreme lockdown” and “then there was shooting within the windows,” he mentioned in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Friday.

He stated 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 stated. 

He defined that he survived by taking part in dead after he acquired 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 useless so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

When police lastly entered the room and shot the gunman, the youngsters had been evacuated. Within the rushed exit, Samuel noticed the bodies of his instructor and different pupils.

“There was blood on the ground,” he mentioned. “And there have been children ... filled with blood.” 

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

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

In a news conference Thursday, Texas officers walked back previously released info, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a faculty police officer and entered the college constructing unobstructed.

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

Officers shared a brand new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a automobile close to the varsity and shot at two folks exterior a funeral house across the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers 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 primary officers on the scene known as 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, stated Thursday.

Texas investigators advised NBC News victims of the shooting were present in 4 classrooms.

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

Dad and mom and family members who have been gathered outside Robb Elementary in the course of the taking pictures begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their kids.

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

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

She said 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 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 around the faculty."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.