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

Survivors of the Texas elementary school shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie closing words of "Good night" and "You're all gonna die" earlier than opening fire, and how some played lifeless to be spared within the spray of bullets.

Fourth grade student Miah Cerrillo, 11, told 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 of her academics in the eye and stated, “Good night time” before taking pictures her.

Miah instructed her story through a CNN producer. She didn't need to communicate on digicam and declined to talk to any men following her expertise with the varsity shooting and solely felt comfortable talking to girls, the broadcaster stated. NBC News couldn't instantly verify 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 fire, Miah stated. She stated she heard “sad music” enjoying, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

Miah stated that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a buddy’s blood on herself to look useless. She also stated she and a pal grabbed their instructor’s phone and known as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send assist as a result of we’re in bother.” 

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

A Robb Elementary trainer, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, told NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert staff of a lockdown, went off after photographs have been fired and youngsters started to hide beneath their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a traditional day till my teacher said we’re on extreme lockdown” and “then there was shooting in the windows,” he said in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Friday.

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

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

He explained that he survived by enjoying useless after he received hit in the leg with shrapnel that hit a chair between him and the shooter.

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

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

“There was blood on the bottom,” he mentioned. “And there were youngsters ... full of blood.” 

The investigation into the shooting is ongoing, and many questions stay 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 news conference Thursday, Texas officers walked again previously released data, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a faculty police officer and entered the school building unobstructed.

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

Officials shared a brand new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a car close to the varsity and shot at two individuals exterior a funeral dwelling throughout the road, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers stated 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, however tactical teams didn’t arrive till about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Department of Public Safety, stated Thursday.

Texas investigators instructed NBC Information victims of the taking pictures have been found in 4 classrooms.

Robb Elementary serves second by way of fourth grade students in the small town of Uvalde, which is about 75 miles from the Mexico borders and home to a large Latino neighborhood.

Parents and family members who have been gathered exterior Robb Elementary during the taking pictures begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their children.

Angeli Rose Gomez instructed The Wall Avenue Journal she was handcuffed by U.S. marshals outdoors the college for repeatedly demanding police enter the varsity. 

“The police had been doing nothing,” she said to the paper. “They had been simply standing outdoors the fence. They weren’t getting into there or working anyplace.” 

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 lively investigation. 

Marshals instructed NBC News in an announcement 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 community that was gathering across the school."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.