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

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

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

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

Miah instructed her story via a CNN producer. She didn't want to speak on digital camera and declined to speak to any males following her experience with the varsity capturing and solely felt comfortable speaking to women, the broadcaster said. NBC News couldn't immediately confirm 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 said. 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 would like people to die music.”

Miah stated that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a pal’s blood on herself to look lifeless. She also stated she and a buddy grabbed their trainer’s phone and referred to as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send help as a result of we’re in bother.” 

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

A Robb Elementary teacher, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, instructed NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert workers of a lockdown, went off after shots were fired and kids began to hide below their desks in the class. 

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

“It was a standard day till my trainer stated we’re on extreme lockdown” and “then there was capturing in the home windows,” he stated in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Friday.

He said that the gunman barged into the classroom, introduced, “You’re all gonna die,” after which started to shoot. 

“He shot the instructor and then he shot the youngsters,” Samuel stated. 

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

“I believe 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 children had been evacuated. Within the rushed exit, Samuel saw the our bodies of his teacher and other pupils.

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

The investigation into the taking pictures is ongoing, and many questions remain as to why it took police so long to take out the gunman.

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

In a news conference Thursday, Texas officials walked again beforehand launched data, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a school police officer and entered the college constructing unobstructed.

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

Officials shared a new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a automobile close to the varsity and shot at two folks outside a funeral residence across the road, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officials said the primary 911 name came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the college 10 minutes later and four minutes later police were on the scene. The first officers on the scene referred to as for backup, but 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 informed NBC Information victims of the taking pictures had been present in 4 classrooms.

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

Dad and mom and loved ones who have been gathered outside Robb Elementary throughout the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and shield their kids.

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

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

She mentioned 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 active investigation. 

Marshals informed NBC Information in an announcement that deputy marshals “by no means arrested or placed anyone in handcuffs whereas securing the crime scene perimeter.”

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

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.