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

Survivors of the Texas elementary faculty taking pictures are recounting the gunman's eerie final phrases of "Good night" and "You're all gonna die" earlier than opening fireplace, and the way some played useless to be spared within the spray of bullets.

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

She said the gunman looked at certainly one of her lecturers in the eye and stated, “Good evening” before taking pictures her.

Miah informed her story via a CNN producer. She did not want to communicate on digicam and declined to speak to any men following her experience with the college taking pictures and only felt snug chatting with ladies, the broadcaster stated. NBC Information couldn't instantly verify 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 fireplace, Miah mentioned. She said she heard “unhappy music” playing, believing the gunman put it on. 

When asked what the music was, she mentioned it sounded like, “I would like folks to die music.”

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

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

A Robb Elementary instructor, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, instructed NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert employees of a lockdown, went off after pictures have been fired and kids started to hide below their desks in the class. 

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

“It was a standard day till my instructor said we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was taking pictures within the home 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,” after which began to shoot. 

“He shot the trainer after which he shot the youngsters,” Samuel mentioned. 

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

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

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

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

The investigation into the taking pictures is ongoing, and plenty of questions remain 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 information conference Thursday, Texas officers walked again beforehand launched data, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a school police officer and entered the varsity constructing unobstructed.

Police now say it took over an hour from the first 911 call to stop the bloodbath.

Officers shared a new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a vehicle near the college and shot at two individuals exterior a funeral residence across the road, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officials stated the first 911 call came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the varsity 10 minutes later and four minutes later police had been on the scene. The primary officers on the scene referred to as for backup, but tactical teams didn’t arrive till about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Department of Public Safety, mentioned Thursday.

Texas investigators advised NBC News victims of the capturing have been found in 4 lecture rooms.

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

Mother and father and loved ones who have been gathered exterior Robb Elementary through the taking pictures begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their children.

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

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

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

Marshals advised NBC News in a press release that deputy marshals “never arrested or placed anybody in handcuffs whereas securing the crime scene perimeter.”

“Our deputy marshals maintained order and peace within the midst of the grief-stricken group that was gathering across the college."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.