4th grade survivor of Texas school taking pictures describes gunman’s words before opening fireplace

Survivors of the Texas elementary faculty capturing are recounting the gunman's eerie final words of "Good night time" and "You are all gonna die" earlier than opening fireplace, and how some played dead to be spared in the spray of bullets.

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

She mentioned the gunman checked out considered one of her academics in the eye and said, “Good night” earlier than taking pictures her.

Miah instructed her story by a CNN producer. She did not want to speak on camera and declined to talk to any men following her expertise with the varsity capturing and solely felt snug chatting with ladies, the broadcaster mentioned. 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 said. She stated she heard “sad music” enjoying, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

Miah mentioned that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a buddy’s blood on herself to look lifeless. She additionally stated she and a good friend grabbed their teacher’s cellphone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send assist because we’re in bother.” 

Within the Tuesday horror, 19 children and two lecturers had been killed, and another 17 had been wounded.

A Robb Elementary instructor, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, advised NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert employees of a lockdown, went off after photographs were fired and kids started to cover underneath their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a standard day until my teacher 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 mentioned that the gunman barged into the classroom, introduced, “You’re all gonna die,” after which began to shoot. 

“He shot the trainer after which he shot the children,” Samuel mentioned. 

He explained that he survived by playing lifeless after he received 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 performed useless so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

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

“There was blood on the ground,” he stated. “And there were youngsters ... filled with blood.” 

The investigation into the taking pictures is ongoing, and plenty 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 news conference Thursday, Texas officers walked back beforehand launched data, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a school police officer and entered the school building unobstructed.

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

Officers shared a new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a automobile near the school and shot at two people outside a funeral dwelling throughout 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 4 minutes later police were on the scene. The first officers on the scene referred to as for backup, but tactical groups didn’t arrive till about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Department of Public Safety, mentioned Thursday.

Texas investigators instructed NBC News victims of the capturing had been 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 residential to a big Latino community.

Mother and father and family members who were gathered exterior Robb Elementary through the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and shield their children.

Angeli Rose Gomez advised The Wall Road Journal she was handcuffed by U.S. marshals outdoors the school for repeatedly demanding police enter the varsity. 

“The police had been doing nothing,” she said to the paper. “They had been just standing exterior the fence. They weren’t entering into there or running anywhere.” 

She mentioned at first she waited patiently then when she grew to become extra fervent along with her pleas, U.S. marshals allegedly arrested her for intervening in an lively investigation. 

Marshals advised NBC News in a press release that deputy marshals “never arrested or positioned anyone in handcuffs whereas securing the crime scene perimeter.”

“Our deputy marshals maintained order and peace in 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.