4th grade survivor of Texas college capturing describes gunman’s words earlier than opening fire

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

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

She mentioned the gunman looked at considered one of her academics within the eye and mentioned, “Good evening” before shooting her.

Miah informed her story through a CNN producer. She did not need to communicate on camera and declined to talk to any males following her experience with the school shooting and only felt snug chatting with girls, the broadcaster stated. NBC News could not instantly 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 fireplace, Miah mentioned. She said she heard “unhappy music” playing, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

Miah stated that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a good friend’s blood on herself to look lifeless. She additionally mentioned she and a good friend grabbed their instructor’s telephone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send help because we’re in trouble.” 

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

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

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

“It was a normal day until my instructor said we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was taking pictures in the home 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 instructor and then he shot the children,” Samuel said. 

He defined that he survived by playing dead after he received hit within the leg with shrapnel that hit a chair between him and the shooter.

“I feel he was aiming at me,” Samuel stated. “I played useless so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

When police lastly entered the room and shot the gunman, the kids have been evacuated. In the rushed exit, Samuel saw the our bodies of his trainer and other pupils.

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

The investigation into the taking pictures 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 on the scene.

In a information convention Thursday, Texas officers walked back beforehand launched data, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a college police officer and entered the school constructing unobstructed.

Police now say it took over an hour from the first 911 name to stop the massacre.

Officials shared a brand new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a vehicle near the school and shot at two people outdoors a funeral home throughout the road, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers said the first 911 call came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the school 10 minutes later and four minutes later police were on the scene. The primary 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, stated Thursday.

Texas investigators instructed NBC News victims of the shooting were present in 4 lecture rooms.

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

Parents and family members who had been gathered outdoors Robb Elementary in the course of the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their youngsters.

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

“The police were doing nothing,” she said to the paper. “They have been just standing outside the fence. They weren’t getting into there or working anywhere.” 

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

Marshals told NBC Information in a statement that deputy marshals “never arrested or positioned anybody in handcuffs whereas 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 college."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.