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

Survivors of the Texas elementary faculty capturing are recounting the gunman's eerie last phrases of "Good night" and "You are 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 Sew” when the shooter appeared Tuesday at Robb Elementary in Uvalde.

She stated the gunman looked at considered one of her lecturers within the eye and stated, “Good evening” earlier than shooting her.

Miah instructed her story through a CNN producer. She didn't want to converse on digicam and declined to speak to any men following her experience with the school taking pictures and solely felt snug speaking to girls, the broadcaster said. NBC Information could not immediately 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 fire, Miah mentioned. She stated she heard “unhappy music” playing, believing the gunman put it on. 

When asked what the music was, she stated it sounded 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 dead. She additionally mentioned she and a buddy grabbed their instructor’s cellphone and known as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send assist because we’re in bother.” 

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

A Robb Elementary teacher, 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 shots were fired and kids started to hide below their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a normal day until my trainer said we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was taking pictures in the home windows,” he mentioned in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Friday.

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

“He shot the teacher and then he shot the youngsters,” Samuel mentioned. 

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

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

When police lastly entered the room and shot the gunman, the youngsters were evacuated. In the rushed exit, Samuel noticed the bodies of his teacher and different pupils.

“There was blood on the ground,” he stated. “And there have been kids ... full of 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 officers walked again beforehand launched data, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a college police officer and entered the varsity constructing unobstructed.

Police now say it took over an hour from the primary 911 call to cease the bloodbath.

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

Officers stated the primary 911 name got here in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the college 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police had been on the scene. The first officers on the scene referred to as for backup, however 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 instructed NBC Information victims of the shooting have been present in four school rooms.

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 large Latino neighborhood.

Mother and father and loved ones who were gathered exterior Robb Elementary during the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their youngsters.

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

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

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

Marshals told NBC News in a statement that deputy marshals “by no means arrested or positioned anybody in handcuffs whereas securing the crime scene perimeter.”

“Our deputy marshals maintained order and peace in the midst of the grief-stricken community that was gathering around the faculty."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.