4th grade survivor of Texas college taking pictures describes gunman’s words earlier than opening fire

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

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

She stated the gunman checked out certainly one of her lecturers in the eye and mentioned, “Good night” earlier than capturing her.

Miah instructed her story through a CNN producer. She did not need to speak on camera and declined to speak to any males following her expertise with the college capturing and solely felt comfortable speaking to women, the broadcaster said. NBC News couldn't immediately verify 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 hearth, Miah stated. She mentioned she heard “sad music” taking part in, believing the gunman put it on. 

When asked what the music was, she stated it seemed like, “I need people to die music.”

Miah mentioned 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 friend grabbed their teacher’s telephone and known as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send help because we’re in hassle.” 

In the Tuesday horror, 19 youngsters and two academics have been killed, and one other 17 had been wounded.

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

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

“It was a traditional day till my trainer said we’re on extreme lockdown” and “then there was taking pictures in the windows,” he said 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,” and then began to shoot. 

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

He explained that he survived by enjoying lifeless after he bought hit within 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 were evacuated. In the rushed exit, Samuel saw the bodies of his teacher and other pupils.

“There was blood on the ground,” he mentioned. “And there were kids ... 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 at the scene.

In a information conference Thursday, Texas officials walked back previously released info, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a college police officer and entered the varsity building unobstructed.

Police now say it took over an hour from the first 911 call to stop the bloodbath.

Officers shared a brand new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a automobile near the school and shot at two people exterior a funeral home across the road, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers said the primary 911 name came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the varsity 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police have been on the scene. The first officers on the scene referred to as for backup, but tactical groups didn’t arrive till about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Department of Public Safety, said Thursday.

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

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

Dad and mom and loved ones who had been gathered outside Robb Elementary throughout the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and shield their kids.

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

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

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

Marshals advised NBC News in an announcement that deputy marshals “by no means arrested or placed anybody 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 faculty."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.