4th grade survivor of Texas college capturing describes gunman’s phrases earlier than opening fire

Survivors of the Texas elementary school taking pictures are recounting the gunman's eerie remaining words of "Good night" and "You're all gonna die" before opening fire, and how some played dead to be spared within the spray of bullets.

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

She said the gunman checked out one in all her academics in the eye and stated, “Good night” earlier than shooting her.

Miah told her story through a CNN producer. She did not want to speak on digital camera and declined to talk to any males following her expertise with the varsity shooting and solely felt comfy chatting with girls, the broadcaster mentioned. NBC Information could not immediately verify the account.

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

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

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

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

Within the Tuesday horror, 19 youngsters and two academics were killed, and one other 17 were wounded.

A Robb Elementary instructor, 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 have been fired and kids began to cover under their desks in the class. 

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

“It was a normal day until my trainer stated we’re on extreme lockdown” and “then there was shooting within the windows,” he mentioned 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,” and then began to shoot. 

“He shot the instructor after which he shot the youngsters,” Samuel said. 

He explained that he survived by playing lifeless after he obtained hit within the leg with shrapnel that hit a chair between him and the shooter.

“I feel he was aiming at me,” Samuel mentioned. “I performed useless so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

When police lastly entered the room and shot the gunman, the kids were evacuated. Within the rushed exit, Samuel noticed the bodies of his instructor and different pupils.

“There was blood on the bottom,” he mentioned. “And there were children ... filled with blood.” 

The investigation into the shooting is ongoing, and lots 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 information convention Thursday, Texas officials walked back beforehand released data, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a faculty police officer and entered the school constructing unobstructed.

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

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

Officers mentioned the first 911 name 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 first officers on the scene called 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 Safety, said Thursday.

Texas investigators advised NBC Information victims of the shooting were found in four classrooms.

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

Parents and loved ones who had been gathered outside Robb Elementary during the taking pictures begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their youngsters.

Angeli Rose Gomez told 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 mentioned to the paper. “They were just standing outdoors the fence. They weren’t entering into there or working wherever.” 

She said 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 lively investigation. 

Marshals informed NBC Information in an announcement that deputy marshals “never arrested or positioned anyone in handcuffs whereas securing the crime scene perimeter.”

“Our deputy marshals maintained order and peace within the midst of the grief-stricken neighborhood that was gathering across the faculty."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.