4th grade survivor of Texas faculty shooting describes gunman’s words before opening fire

Survivors of the Texas elementary school shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie last words of "Good night" and "You are all gonna die" earlier than opening hearth, and how some performed lifeless to be spared within the spray of bullets.

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

She stated the gunman looked at one among her teachers within the eye and stated, “Good night” earlier than shooting her.

Miah told her story by way of a CNN producer. She did not wish to communicate on camera and declined to talk to any men following her experience with the school shooting and solely felt comfy chatting with ladies, the broadcaster said. NBC Information couldn't instantly verify the account.

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

After firing shots in her classroom, the shooter went into the adjoining classroom and opened hearth, Miah said. She mentioned she heard “sad music” taking part in, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

Miah stated that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a good friend’s blood on herself to look lifeless. She also stated she and a friend grabbed their trainer’s phone and referred to as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send assist because we’re in hassle.” 

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

A Robb Elementary instructor, 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 pictures were fired and kids began to cover underneath their desks in the class. 

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

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

He said that the gunman barged into the classroom, announced, “You’re all gonna die,” and then began to shoot. 

“He shot the instructor after which he shot the kids,” Samuel stated. 

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

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

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

“There was blood on the ground,” he said. “And there have been kids ... filled with blood.” 

The investigation into the capturing is ongoing, and many questions stay 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 officials walked again beforehand released information, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a school police officer and entered the college building 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 college and shot at two folks outdoors a funeral residence throughout the road, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers stated the first 911 call came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the varsity 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police were on the scene. The primary officers on the scene known as for backup, however tactical teams didn’t arrive till about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Department of Public Safety, stated Thursday.

Texas investigators told NBC Information victims of the capturing were found in 4 school rooms.

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

Mother and father and family members who have been gathered exterior Robb Elementary throughout the taking pictures begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their youngsters.

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

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

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

Marshals instructed NBC News 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 within the midst of the grief-stricken community that was gathering across the college."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.