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 final phrases of "Good night time" and "You're all gonna die" earlier than opening fire, and the way some played dead to be spared in the spray of bullets.

Fourth grade scholar Miah Cerrillo, 11, told 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 of her academics in the eye and stated, “Good night time” before taking pictures her.

Miah advised her story by means of a CNN producer. She didn't wish to speak on digicam and declined to speak to any males following her expertise with the school capturing and only felt comfortable chatting with ladies, the broadcaster said. NBC News couldn't 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 hearth, Miah stated. She stated she heard “unhappy music” enjoying, believing the gunman put it on. 

When asked what the music was, she said it appeared like, “I want folks to die music.”

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

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

A Robb Elementary instructor, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, told NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert staff of a lockdown, went off after photographs have been fired and kids began to hide underneath their desks in the class. 

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

“It was a traditional day till my teacher stated we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was shooting within the home windows,” he stated in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Friday.

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

“He shot the trainer and then he shot the kids,” Samuel stated. 

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

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

When police lastly entered the room and shot the gunman, the children have been evacuated. Within 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 youngsters ... full of blood.” 

The investigation into the shooting 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 on the scene.

In a news convention Thursday, Texas officers walked again previously released data, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a school police officer and entered the school constructing unobstructed.

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

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

Officers mentioned the primary 911 call came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the school 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police had been on the scene. The primary officers on the scene called for backup, however tactical groups didn’t arrive till 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 found in four school rooms.

Robb Elementary serves second via fourth grade college 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 family members who were gathered outside Robb Elementary during the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and shield their youngsters.

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

“The police had been doing nothing,” she said to the paper. “They have been just standing exterior the fence. They weren’t going in there or running anyplace.” 

She stated 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 instructed NBC Information in a statement that deputy marshals “never arrested or placed anyone in handcuffs while securing the crime scene perimeter.”

“Our deputy marshals maintained order and peace within the midst of the grief-stricken group that was gathering around the school."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.