4th grade survivor of Texas school capturing describes gunman’s words before opening fireplace

Survivors of the Texas elementary faculty capturing are recounting the gunman's eerie closing phrases of "Good night time" and "You are all gonna die" earlier than opening hearth, and the way some performed lifeless to be spared in the spray of bullets.

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

She mentioned the gunman looked at one in every of her teachers within the eye and mentioned, “Good night time” earlier than shooting her.

Miah instructed her story via a CNN producer. She didn't wish to converse on digicam and declined to talk to any males following her expertise with the varsity taking pictures and only felt comfy talking to ladies, the broadcaster stated. NBC Information could not instantly confirm the account.

Miah herself was hit by fragments in the hail of bullets, CNN reported.

After firing pictures in her classroom, the shooter went into the adjoining classroom and opened fire, Miah stated. She mentioned she heard “unhappy music” taking part in, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

Miah mentioned that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a pal’s blood on herself to look lifeless. She additionally mentioned she and a good friend grabbed their teacher’s telephone and referred to as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship assist because we’re in trouble.” 

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

A Robb Elementary teacher, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, informed NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert workers of a lockdown, went off after shots had been fired and children started to hide underneath their desks in the class. 

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

“It was a traditional day until my instructor mentioned we’re on extreme lockdown” and “then there was shooting in the home windows,” he said in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Friday.

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

“He shot the trainer and then he shot the children,” Samuel mentioned. 

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

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

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

“There was blood on the bottom,” he said. “And there have been kids ... full of blood.” 

The investigation into the taking pictures is ongoing, and plenty of questions remain 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 officials walked back previously launched information, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a college 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.

Officials shared a new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a automobile near the college and shot at two folks exterior a funeral home across 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 college 10 minutes later and four minutes later police have been on the scene. The first officers on the scene known 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, said Thursday.

Texas investigators instructed NBC Information victims of the capturing were found in four school rooms.

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

Parents and family members who have been gathered exterior Robb Elementary in the course of the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and shield their youngsters.

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

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

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

Marshals instructed NBC News in a statement that deputy marshals “never arrested or positioned anybody in handcuffs while 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 school."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.