4th grade survivor of Texas faculty taking pictures describes gunman’s phrases before opening hearth

Survivors of the Texas elementary faculty shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie last phrases of "Good night" and "You are all gonna die" earlier than opening fire, and how some played dead to be spared within the spray of bullets.

Fourth grade scholar Miah Cerrillo, 11, instructed 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 among her teachers within the eye and stated, “Good evening” before taking pictures her.

Miah advised her story by way of a CNN producer. She did not need to communicate on digicam and declined to speak to any males following her experience with the school taking pictures and only felt comfortable talking to ladies, the broadcaster said. NBC News couldn't instantly confirm 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 fireplace, Miah stated. She stated she heard “unhappy music” playing, believing the gunman put it on. 

When requested what the music was, she said it sounded like, “I need folks to die music.”

Miah said that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a buddy’s blood on herself to look lifeless. She also stated she and a friend grabbed their teacher’s cellphone and known as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send help because we’re in trouble.” 

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

A Robb Elementary teacher, 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 photographs had been fired and kids began to hide underneath their desks in the class. 

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

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

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

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

He defined that he survived by taking part in dead 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 dead so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

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

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

The investigation into the taking pictures is ongoing, and lots 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 information conference Thursday, Texas officers walked again beforehand launched data, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a college police officer and entered the varsity constructing unobstructed.

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

Officials shared a new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a automobile near the school and shot at two folks outdoors a funeral residence across 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 school 10 minutes later and four minutes later police were 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, mentioned Thursday.

Texas investigators told NBC Information victims of the shooting were found in 4 classrooms.

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

Mother and father and loved ones who were gathered exterior Robb Elementary during the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their youngsters.

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

“The police were doing nothing,” she stated to the paper. “They were simply standing outdoors the fence. They weren’t stepping into there or operating anywhere.” 

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 energetic investigation. 

Marshals informed NBC News in a statement that deputy marshals “never arrested or positioned anyone in handcuffs while securing the crime scene perimeter.”

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

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.