4th grade survivor of Texas college capturing describes gunman’s words before opening fireplace

Survivors of the Texas elementary faculty shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie remaining words of "Good night time" and "You are all gonna die" earlier than opening fire, and the way some performed lifeless to be spared within the spray of bullets.

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

She said the gunman looked at certainly one of her lecturers within the eye and said, “Good evening” earlier than capturing her.

Miah instructed her story via a CNN producer. She did not want to communicate on digital camera and declined to speak to any men following her experience with the college shooting and solely felt comfortable speaking to girls, the broadcaster stated. NBC News couldn't instantly confirm the account.

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

After firing shots in her classroom, the shooter went into the adjoining classroom and opened hearth, Miah stated. She stated she heard “sad music” enjoying, believing the gunman put it on. 

When requested what the music was, she stated it sounded like, “I want folks to die music.”

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

In the Tuesday horror, 19 youngsters and two academics were killed, and another 17 were wounded.

A Robb Elementary trainer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert employees of a lockdown, went off after pictures have been fired and kids began to cover below their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a normal day until my teacher said we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was shooting in the windows,” he said 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 started to shoot. 

“He shot the trainer after which he shot the kids,” Samuel stated. 

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

“I think 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 were evacuated. Within the rushed exit, Samuel noticed the bodies of his trainer and other pupils.

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

The investigation into the capturing is ongoing, and plenty of questions stay as to why it took police so lengthy to take out the gunman.

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

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

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

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

Officials mentioned the primary 911 name came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the varsity 10 minutes later and four minutes later police were on the scene. The first officers on the scene referred to as for backup, however tactical groups didn’t arrive until about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Division of Public Security, said Thursday.

Texas investigators advised NBC News victims of the taking pictures had been found in four school rooms.

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

Parents and loved ones who were gathered exterior Robb Elementary throughout the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their children.

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

“The police had been doing nothing,” she stated to the paper. “They have been just standing outdoors the fence. They weren’t stepping into there or running anywhere.” 

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 told NBC Information in an announcement 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 group that was gathering around the school."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.