4th grade survivor of Texas faculty taking pictures describes gunman’s phrases before opening fireplace

Survivors of the Texas elementary college shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie remaining phrases of "Good night" and "You are all gonna die" before opening fireplace, and how some played useless to be spared within the spray of bullets.

Fourth grade pupil 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 of her lecturers within the eye and mentioned, “Good evening” earlier than capturing her.

Miah advised her story by way of a CNN producer. She didn't need to speak on digital camera and declined to speak to any men following her experience with the varsity taking pictures and solely felt comfortable talking to women, the broadcaster mentioned. NBC Information could not instantly 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 mentioned. She said she heard “unhappy music” enjoying, believing the gunman put it on. 

When requested what the music was, she mentioned it gave the impression of, “I need individuals to die music.”

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

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

A Robb Elementary teacher, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, informed NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert employees of a lockdown, went off after pictures had been fired and children began to cover under their desks in the class. 

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

“It was a standard day until my teacher said we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was shooting within the home windows,” he said in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Friday.

He mentioned that the gunman barged into the classroom, announced, “You’re all gonna die,” and then started to shoot. 

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

He explained that he survived by taking part in lifeless after he obtained 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 useless so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

When police finally entered the room and shot the gunman, the kids had been evacuated. Within the rushed exit, Samuel noticed the bodies of his teacher and other pupils.

“There was blood on the ground,” he stated. “And there were kids ... full of blood.” 

The investigation into the capturing is ongoing, and lots of questions remain 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 previously launched information, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a faculty police officer and entered the school building unobstructed.

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

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

Officials said the primary 911 name got here in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the school 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 until about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Department of Public Security, mentioned Thursday.

Texas investigators informed NBC News victims of the shooting had been present in four classrooms.

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

Dad and mom and family members who had been gathered outside Robb Elementary in the course of the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their kids.

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

“The police were doing nothing,” she mentioned to the paper. “They were just standing outdoors the fence. They weren’t entering into there or running wherever.” 

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

Marshals told NBC News in a press release that deputy marshals “never 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 around the faculty."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.