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

Survivors of the Texas elementary college shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie final phrases of "Good night time" and "You're all gonna die" earlier than opening hearth, and how some performed dead to be spared within 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 said the gunman looked at one among her lecturers within the eye and stated, “Good night time” before capturing her.

Miah informed her story by a CNN producer. She didn't wish to speak on digicam and declined to talk to any men following her experience with the varsity taking pictures and solely felt comfy chatting with girls, the broadcaster mentioned. NBC Information couldn't instantly confirm the account.

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

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

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

Miah mentioned that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a pal’s blood on herself to look useless. She additionally said she and a pal grabbed their teacher’s telephone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send help as a result of we’re in bother.” 

Within the Tuesday horror, 19 children and two teachers have been killed, and one other 17 were wounded.

A Robb Elementary trainer, 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 pictures have been fired and children started to hide under their desks in the class. 

Samuel Salinas, 10, was a student in teacher Irma Garcia’s class on Tuesday when the college shooting unfolded.

“It was a normal day until my instructor said we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was taking pictures in the home windows,” he said 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,” and then started to shoot. 

“He shot the instructor and then he shot the kids,” Samuel said. 

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

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

When police finally entered the room and shot the gunman, the children have been evacuated. Within the rushed exit, Samuel noticed the our bodies of his trainer and other pupils.

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

The investigation into the capturing is ongoing, and lots of 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 convention Thursday, Texas officials walked back previously launched info, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a college police officer and entered the school constructing unobstructed.

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

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 people outside a funeral house throughout 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 were on the scene. The primary officers on the scene known as for backup, however tactical teams didn’t arrive until about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Department of Public Security, stated Thursday.

Texas investigators told NBC News victims of the taking pictures were present in 4 lecture rooms.

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

Mother and father and family members who have been gathered outside Robb Elementary through the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and shield their youngsters.

Angeli Rose Gomez advised The Wall Road 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 simply standing outside the fence. They weren’t stepping into there or operating anywhere.” 

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

Marshals advised NBC News in an announcement 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 community that was gathering around the college."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.