4th grade survivor of Texas college taking pictures describes gunman’s words earlier than opening fireplace

Survivors of the Texas elementary college taking pictures are recounting the gunman's eerie ultimate words of "Good night time" and "You're all gonna die" earlier than opening fireplace, and how some performed useless to be spared in the spray of bullets.

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

She mentioned the gunman checked out one of her teachers within the eye and said, “Good evening” before capturing her.

Miah instructed her story through a CNN producer. She did not need to speak on digicam and declined to speak to any males following her expertise with the school taking pictures and only felt comfy talking to ladies, the broadcaster said. NBC Information could not immediately confirm 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 mentioned. She mentioned she heard “unhappy music” enjoying, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

Miah mentioned that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a pal’s blood on herself to look lifeless. She also stated she and a buddy grabbed their instructor’s telephone and known as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send assist because we’re in trouble.” 

In the Tuesday horror, 19 kids and two lecturers have been killed, and another 17 have been wounded.

A Robb Elementary trainer, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, informed NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert workers of a lockdown, went off after photographs were fired and children started to cover beneath their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a traditional day until my trainer stated we’re on extreme 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, introduced, “You’re all gonna die,” after which started to shoot. 

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

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

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

When police finally entered the room and shot the gunman, the children were evacuated. Within the rushed exit, Samuel saw the our bodies of his teacher and different pupils.

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

The investigation into the shooting 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 conference Thursday, Texas officers walked back beforehand launched info, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a faculty police officer and entered the college building unobstructed.

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

Officers shared a new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a vehicle near the school and shot at two individuals outdoors a funeral house throughout the road, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officials mentioned the first 911 call came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the school 10 minutes later and four minutes later police had been on the scene. The primary officers on the scene referred to as for backup, however tactical groups didn’t arrive until about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Department of Public Security, mentioned Thursday.

Texas investigators informed NBC News victims of the taking pictures were found in 4 lecture rooms.

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

Mother and father and loved ones who have been gathered outside Robb Elementary through the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their children.

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

“The police have been doing nothing,” she mentioned to the paper. “They have been simply standing outside the fence. They weren’t going in there or running anyplace.” 

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

Marshals told NBC Information in a press release that deputy marshals “by no means arrested or placed anyone in handcuffs while securing the crime scene perimeter.”

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

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.