4th grade survivor of Texas faculty shooting describes gunman’s words before opening fireplace

Survivors of the Texas elementary school taking pictures are recounting the gunman's eerie closing words of "Good night time" and "You are all gonna die" earlier than opening hearth, and how some played lifeless to be spared in 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 stated the gunman looked at one among her academics within the eye and said, “Good night” before shooting her.

Miah informed her story via a CNN producer. She didn't want to converse on camera and declined to speak to any men following her expertise with the varsity taking pictures and only felt snug talking to girls, the broadcaster mentioned. NBC Information couldn't immediately confirm the account.

Miah herself was hit by fragments in the hail of bullets, CNN reported.

After firing pictures in her classroom, the shooter went into the adjoining classroom and opened fireplace, Miah said. She mentioned she heard “unhappy music” playing, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

Miah stated that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a friend’s blood on herself to look dead. She also said she and a friend grabbed their instructor’s telephone and known as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship assist because we’re in hassle.” 

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

A Robb Elementary instructor, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, instructed NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert workers of a lockdown, went off after shots were fired and youngsters began to cover underneath their desks within the class. 

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

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

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

“He shot the instructor and then he shot the children,” Samuel mentioned. 

He defined that he survived by taking part in lifeless after he acquired hit in the leg with shrapnel that hit a chair between him and the shooter.

“I think he was aiming at me,” Samuel stated. “I performed 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 noticed the our bodies of his trainer and other pupils.

“There was blood on the ground,” he said. “And there have been youngsters ... stuffed with blood.” 

The investigation into the shooting is ongoing, and lots of questions remain 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 convention Thursday, Texas officials walked again beforehand released data, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a college police officer and entered the school constructing unobstructed.

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

Officers shared a brand new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a car close to the school and shot at two folks outside a funeral residence throughout the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officials mentioned the first 911 call got here in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the college 10 minutes later and four minutes later police have been on the scene. The first officers on the scene known as for backup, but tactical groups didn’t arrive till about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Department of Public Safety, mentioned Thursday.

Texas investigators told NBC News victims of the shooting were found in four lecture rooms.

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

Parents and loved ones who were gathered exterior Robb Elementary in the course of the taking pictures begged and shouted at police to enter and shield their youngsters.

Angeli Rose Gomez told The Wall Road 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 stated to the paper. “They were simply standing outside the fence. They weren’t going in 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 active investigation. 

Marshals told NBC News in a statement that deputy marshals “never arrested or positioned anybody 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 college."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.