4th grade survivor of Texas school capturing describes gunman’s phrases earlier than opening fireplace

Survivors of the Texas elementary school shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie final phrases of "Good night time" and "You are all gonna die" before opening fire, and the way some performed lifeless to be spared in the spray of bullets.

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

She said the gunman checked out one in all her academics in the eye and said, “Good evening” earlier than shooting her.

Miah informed her story via a CNN producer. She did not want to communicate on camera and declined to speak to any men following her expertise with the college shooting and only felt comfy speaking to women, the broadcaster said. NBC News couldn't instantly 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 mentioned. She stated she heard “unhappy music” playing, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

Miah said that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a pal’s blood on herself to look useless. She additionally mentioned she and a good friend grabbed their trainer’s cellphone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship assist as a result of we’re in hassle.” 

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

A Robb Elementary trainer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert employees of a lockdown, went off after shots were fired and children began to cover below their desks in the class. 

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

“It was a traditional day until my trainer stated we’re on extreme lockdown” and “then there was taking pictures in the home windows,” he said in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Friday.

He stated 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 children,” Samuel said. 

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

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

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

The investigation into the capturing is ongoing, and lots of questions stay as to why it took police so lengthy 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 info, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a college police officer and entered the school building unobstructed.

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

Officers shared a brand new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a vehicle near the varsity and shot at two individuals outside a funeral house across the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers said the primary 911 call came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the school 10 minutes later and four minutes later police have been on the scene. The first officers on the scene called for backup, but tactical teams didn’t arrive until about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Division of Public Security, mentioned Thursday.

Texas investigators informed NBC Information victims of the shooting had been present in four classrooms.

Robb Elementary serves second via 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.

Parents and loved ones who have been gathered exterior Robb Elementary through the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and shield their kids.

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

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

She said at first she waited patiently then when she turned more fervent with her pleas, U.S. marshals allegedly arrested her for intervening in an active investigation. 

Marshals informed NBC News in a press release that deputy marshals “by no means arrested or placed 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 across the college."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.