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

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

Fourth grade pupil Miah Cerrillo, 11, instructed 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 in all her academics in the eye and said, “Good night time” earlier than taking pictures her.

Miah advised her story via a CNN producer. She didn't want to speak on camera and declined to speak to any men following her expertise with the school capturing and solely felt snug speaking to girls, the broadcaster said. NBC News couldn't immediately verify 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 fire, Miah said. She mentioned she heard “sad music” playing, believing the gunman put it on. 

When asked what the music was, she said it sounded like, “I need 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 useless. She additionally stated she and a pal grabbed their instructor’s telephone and referred to as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send assist as a result of we’re in hassle.” 

Within the Tuesday horror, 19 youngsters and two lecturers had been killed, and one other 17 were 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 shots have been fired and youngsters started to cover beneath their desks in the class. 

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

“It was a traditional day till my instructor stated we’re on extreme lockdown” and “then there was capturing in the 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,” and then began to shoot. 

“He shot the teacher and then he shot the youngsters,” Samuel stated. 

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

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

When police lastly entered the room and shot the gunman, the youngsters 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 were kids ... filled with blood.” 

The investigation into the taking pictures is ongoing, and many questions remain as to why it took police so long to take out the gunman.

The shooter, Salvador Ramos, 18, was killed at the scene.

In a information convention Thursday, Texas officers walked again beforehand launched info, 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 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 near the varsity and shot at two folks outside a funeral dwelling throughout the road, 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 school 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police were on the scene. The primary officers on the scene known as for backup, however tactical groups didn’t arrive till about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Division of Public Safety, mentioned Thursday.

Texas investigators informed NBC News victims of the shooting were present in 4 classrooms.

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

Mother and father and family members who were gathered outside Robb Elementary during the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their youngsters.

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

“The police have been doing nothing,” she said to the paper. “They were simply standing outside the fence. They weren’t getting into there or running anywhere.” 

She said 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 lively investigation. 

Marshals told NBC News in an announcement that deputy marshals “never arrested or positioned anyone in handcuffs while securing the crime scene perimeter.”

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

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.