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

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

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

She mentioned the gunman looked at one in all her lecturers in the eye and stated, “Good night time” earlier than taking pictures her.

Miah told her story by way of a CNN producer. She did not want to communicate on camera and declined to speak to any men following her expertise with the varsity capturing and solely felt comfy speaking to women, the broadcaster mentioned. NBC News could not instantly 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 fireplace, Miah stated. She said she heard “sad music” playing, believing the gunman put it on. 

When requested what the music was, she said it seemed like, “I would like individuals to die music.”

Miah mentioned that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a buddy’s blood on herself to look useless. She additionally mentioned she and a good friend grabbed their teacher’s cellphone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship help because we’re in bother.” 

Within the Tuesday horror, 19 kids and two teachers had been killed, and another 17 have been wounded.

A Robb Elementary instructor, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, informed NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert workers of a lockdown, went off after photographs were fired and children started to hide below their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a traditional day until my trainer said we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was capturing in the windows,” he stated 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 started to shoot. 

“He shot the teacher after which he shot the kids,” Samuel said. 

He explained that he survived by enjoying useless after he obtained 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 played lifeless so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

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

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

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

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

In a news convention Thursday, Texas officers walked again beforehand launched information, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a school police officer and entered the school building unobstructed.

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

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

Officials said the primary 911 call got here 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, 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 advised NBC Information victims of the shooting had been found in four classrooms.

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 big Latino community.

Parents and loved ones who had been gathered outdoors Robb Elementary in the course of the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and shield their children.

Angeli Rose Gomez advised The Wall Avenue Journal she was handcuffed by U.S. marshals outside the college for repeatedly demanding police enter the school. 

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

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

Marshals told NBC News in a statement that deputy marshals “never arrested or positioned anyone 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 across the college."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.