4th grade survivor of Texas school capturing describes gunman’s words before opening hearth

Survivors of the Texas elementary college shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie final words of "Good night time" and "You're all gonna die" earlier than opening fireplace, and the way some performed dead to be spared in 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 checked out one in all her lecturers within the eye and stated, “Good night time” earlier than taking pictures her.

Miah told her story through a CNN producer. She did not wish to converse on digital camera and declined to speak to any males following her expertise with the school taking pictures and solely felt comfortable chatting with women, the broadcaster said. NBC Information couldn't instantly verify the account.

Miah herself was hit by fragments in the hail of bullets, CNN reported.

After firing photographs in her classroom, the shooter went into the adjoining classroom and opened fireplace, Miah mentioned. She stated 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 want folks to die music.”

Miah said that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a buddy’s blood on herself to look dead. She additionally stated she and a buddy grabbed their teacher’s cellphone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send help because we’re in hassle.” 

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

A Robb Elementary trainer, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, advised NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert workers of a lockdown, went off after photographs had been fired and youngsters began to cover underneath their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a traditional day until my instructor mentioned we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was taking pictures in 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,” after which started to shoot. 

“He shot the trainer and then he shot the children,” Samuel stated. 

He explained that he survived by taking part in dead after he received hit in the leg with shrapnel that hit a chair between him and the shooter.

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

When police lastly entered the room and shot the gunman, the children have been evacuated. Within the rushed exit, Samuel noticed the our bodies of his teacher and different pupils.

“There was blood on the bottom,” he said. “And there were youngsters ... stuffed with blood.” 

The investigation into the taking pictures is ongoing, and plenty of questions stay 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 officials walked back beforehand launched data, 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 new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a automobile near the college and shot at two individuals outdoors a funeral house across the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers said the first 911 name came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the varsity 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police were on the scene. The first officers on the scene known as for backup, but tactical teams didn’t arrive till about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Division of Public Security, mentioned Thursday.

Texas investigators told NBC News victims of the taking pictures had been present in 4 classrooms.

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

Mother and father and loved ones who have been gathered outdoors Robb Elementary during the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their youngsters.

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

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

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

Marshals told 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 in the midst of the grief-stricken group that was gathering around the college."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.