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

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

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

She said the gunman checked out certainly one of her academics within the eye and said, “Good night time” earlier than taking pictures her.

Miah advised her story by way of a CNN producer. She did not want to communicate on digital camera and declined to speak to any males following her experience with the college capturing and solely felt snug chatting with girls, the broadcaster mentioned. NBC Information couldn't instantly verify 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 fire, Miah stated. She said she heard “unhappy music” playing, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

Miah stated that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a friend’s blood on herself to look lifeless. She additionally stated she and a pal grabbed their instructor’s cellphone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send assist because we’re in hassle.” 

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

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

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

“It was a standard day until my trainer mentioned we’re on extreme lockdown” and “then there was shooting in the home windows,” he mentioned 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,” and then began to shoot. 

“He shot the instructor and then he shot the youngsters,” Samuel stated. 

He explained that he survived by taking part in useless after he obtained hit within the leg with shrapnel that hit a chair between him and the shooter.

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

When police finally entered the room and shot the gunman, the children had been evacuated. In the rushed exit, Samuel saw the our bodies of his instructor and different pupils.

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

The investigation into the capturing is ongoing, and lots of questions remain 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 convention Thursday, Texas officials walked back previously launched information, 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 bloodbath.

Officers shared a new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a vehicle near the varsity and shot at two people outdoors a funeral residence throughout the road, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officials mentioned the first 911 call came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the school 10 minutes later and four minutes later police were on the scene. The first officers on the scene called 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 Security, mentioned Thursday.

Texas investigators instructed NBC Information victims of the shooting had been found in 4 school rooms.

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

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

“The police have been doing nothing,” she said to the paper. “They had been simply standing outside the fence. They weren’t entering into there or running wherever.” 

She stated 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 instructed NBC Information in a statement that deputy marshals “by no means arrested or positioned anyone in handcuffs while securing the crime scene perimeter.”

“Our deputy marshals maintained order and peace within the midst of the grief-stricken community that was gathering around the faculty."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.