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

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

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

She mentioned the gunman looked at considered one of her teachers in the eye and stated, “Good night” earlier than shooting her.

Miah advised her story by way of a CNN producer. She didn't want to converse on digicam and declined to speak to any males following her expertise with the varsity capturing and solely felt comfy speaking to ladies, the broadcaster stated. NBC News 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 fireplace, Miah mentioned. She stated she heard “unhappy music” playing, believing the gunman put it on. 

When requested what the music was, she stated it seemed like, “I would like folks to die music.”

Miah said that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a good friend’s blood on herself to look lifeless. She also said she and a good friend grabbed their teacher’s telephone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship help as a result of we’re in hassle.” 

Within the Tuesday horror, 19 kids and two teachers have been killed, and another 17 were wounded.

A Robb Elementary teacher, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, informed NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert staff of a lockdown, went off after pictures had been fired and youngsters began to hide underneath their desks in the class. 

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

“It was a standard day till my instructor stated we’re on extreme lockdown” and “then there was taking pictures within the windows,” he stated 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 started to shoot. 

“He shot the teacher after which he shot the children,” Samuel said. 

He defined that he survived by playing dead after he obtained hit in the leg with shrapnel that hit a chair between him and the shooter.

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

When police lastly entered the room and shot the gunman, the children have been evacuated. In the rushed exit, Samuel noticed the bodies of his teacher and different pupils.

“There was blood on the bottom,” he stated. “And there have been kids ... full of blood.” 

The investigation into the shooting 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 conference Thursday, Texas officials walked again previously 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 massacre.

Officers shared a new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a car close to the school and shot at two individuals exterior a funeral home across the road, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officials mentioned the primary 911 name came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the college 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police have been on the scene. The first officers on the scene known as for backup, but 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 told NBC News victims of the capturing had been found in 4 lecture rooms.

Robb Elementary serves second by way of 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 group.

Mother and father and loved ones who were gathered outside Robb Elementary during the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and shield their children.

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

“The police had been doing nothing,” she mentioned to the paper. “They have been simply standing exterior the fence. They weren’t getting into there or operating anyplace.” 

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

Marshals advised NBC Information in an announcement that deputy marshals “by no means 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 neighborhood that was gathering around the school."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.