4th grade survivor of Texas college shooting describes gunman’s phrases earlier than opening fire

Survivors of the Texas elementary school capturing are recounting the gunman's eerie final words of "Good night" and "You are all gonna die" before opening hearth, and how some played dead to be spared within the spray of bullets.

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

She stated the gunman checked out one among her teachers in the eye and mentioned, “Good evening” before shooting her.

Miah instructed her story by way of a CNN producer. She did not need to speak on camera and declined to speak to any males following her expertise with the school shooting and only felt comfy speaking to women, the broadcaster stated. NBC Information couldn't immediately verify 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 mentioned she heard “unhappy music” taking part in, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

Miah mentioned that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a buddy’s blood on herself to look useless. She also said she and a buddy grabbed their instructor’s telephone and referred to as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship assist as a result of we’re in hassle.” 

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

A Robb Elementary trainer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, advised NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert employees of a lockdown, went off after pictures were fired and youngsters started to cover 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 traditional day until my teacher mentioned we’re on extreme lockdown” and “then there was capturing within the windows,” he said in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Friday.

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

“He shot the instructor after which he shot the children,” Samuel stated. 

He explained that he survived by enjoying useless after he acquired hit in the leg with shrapnel that hit a chair between him and the shooter.

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

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

“There was blood on the bottom,” he mentioned. “And there were children ... full of blood.” 

The investigation into the taking pictures is ongoing, and lots of questions remain as to why it took police so long to take out the gunman.

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

In a information convention Thursday, Texas officers walked again previously launched data, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a college police officer and entered the college building unobstructed.

Police now say it took over an hour from the first 911 call to cease the massacre.

Officials 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 individuals outside a funeral residence throughout the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers mentioned the primary 911 name got here in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the school 10 minutes later and four minutes later police have been on the scene. The first officers on the scene called for backup, but tactical groups didn’t arrive until about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Division of Public Security, stated Thursday.

Texas investigators informed NBC Information victims of the capturing were found in four school rooms.

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

Dad and mom and loved ones who had been gathered exterior Robb Elementary during the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their kids.

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

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

She stated at first she waited patiently then when she grew to become more fervent together with her pleas, U.S. marshals allegedly arrested her for intervening in an active investigation. 

Marshals advised NBC Information 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 neighborhood that was gathering around the college."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.