4th grade survivor of Texas school shooting describes gunman’s words before opening fire

Survivors of the Texas elementary faculty taking pictures are recounting the gunman's eerie ultimate phrases of "Good night time" and "You are all gonna die" earlier than opening hearth, and the way some played dead to be spared within the spray of bullets.

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

She said the gunman looked at considered one of her lecturers within the eye and stated, “Good evening” before taking pictures her.

Miah instructed her story by a CNN producer. She didn't want to converse on digital camera and declined to speak to any males following her expertise with the varsity capturing and solely felt snug chatting with women, the broadcaster stated. 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 fireplace, Miah stated. She said she heard “sad music” enjoying, believing the gunman put it on. 

When asked what the music was, she said it appeared like, “I would like 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 lifeless. She additionally said she and a good friend grabbed their instructor’s telephone and known as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship assist as a result of we’re in hassle.” 

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

A Robb Elementary trainer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, advised NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert staff of a lockdown, went off after photographs had been fired and kids began to cover beneath their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a traditional day till my instructor said we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was capturing within the home windows,” he stated 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 began to shoot. 

“He shot the trainer after which he shot the youngsters,” Samuel stated. 

He defined that he survived by playing useless after he received hit within the leg with shrapnel that hit a chair between him and the shooter.

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

When police finally entered the room and shot the gunman, the kids were evacuated. In the rushed exit, Samuel noticed the our bodies of his instructor and different pupils.

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

The investigation into the capturing 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 officials walked back beforehand launched data, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a faculty police officer and entered the varsity building unobstructed.

Police now say it took over an hour from the first 911 call to cease the massacre.

Officials shared a brand new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a automobile near the varsity and shot at two folks exterior a funeral residence across the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officials said the first 911 call got here in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the varsity 10 minutes later and four minutes later police have been on the scene. The primary officers on the scene referred to as for backup, however tactical teams didn’t arrive until about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Department of Public Security, mentioned Thursday.

Texas investigators informed NBC Information victims of the shooting were found in four school rooms.

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

Mother and father and family members who had been gathered exterior Robb Elementary throughout the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and shield their children.

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

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

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

Marshals told NBC Information in a press release 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 community that was gathering across the school."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.