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

Survivors of the Texas elementary school taking pictures are recounting the gunman's eerie last words of "Good night time" and "You're all gonna die" before opening hearth, and the way some performed lifeless to be spared within the spray of bullets.

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

She stated the gunman looked at certainly one of her teachers within the eye and mentioned, “Good evening” earlier than taking pictures her.

Miah advised her story via a CNN producer. She didn't wish to converse on digital camera and declined to talk to any males following her experience with the college capturing and only felt snug talking to women, the broadcaster said. NBC Information could not 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 hearth, Miah stated. She said she heard “sad music” playing, believing the gunman put it on. 

When requested what the music was, she said it gave the impression of, “I would like folks to die music.”

Miah mentioned that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a friend’s blood on herself to look lifeless. She also stated she and a good friend grabbed their trainer’s telephone and referred to as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship assist because we’re in bother.” 

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

A Robb Elementary instructor, 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 photographs had been fired and youngsters started to hide beneath their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a standard day until my teacher said we’re on extreme lockdown” and “then there was capturing within the windows,” he stated 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 trainer after which he shot the children,” Samuel stated. 

He explained that he survived by playing useless after he obtained hit within the leg with shrapnel that hit a chair between him and the shooter.

“I believe he was aiming at me,” Samuel stated. “I performed dead so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

When police finally entered the room and shot the gunman, the youngsters were evacuated. Within the rushed exit, Samuel saw the bodies of his trainer and different pupils.

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

The investigation into the capturing is ongoing, and plenty 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 news convention Thursday, Texas officers walked back beforehand released information, 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 stop the massacre.

Officials shared a new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a car near the varsity and shot at two individuals outside a funeral home across the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officials said the primary 911 call got here in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the school 10 minutes later and four minutes later police had been on the scene. The first officers on the scene known as for backup, however 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 taking pictures were found in four school rooms.

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

Parents and loved ones who have been gathered exterior Robb Elementary in the course of the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their youngsters.

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

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

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

Marshals informed NBC Information in an announcement 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 within the midst of the grief-stricken community that was gathering across the school."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.