4th grade survivor of Texas college capturing describes gunman’s words before opening fire

Survivors of the Texas elementary school capturing are recounting the gunman's eerie last words of "Good night time" and "You are all gonna die" earlier than opening fireplace, and how some performed dead 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 stated the gunman looked at one of her academics in the eye and stated, “Good night time” earlier than shooting her.

Miah instructed her story by means of a CNN producer. She didn't need to communicate on camera and declined to talk to any men following her expertise with the college taking pictures and solely felt snug talking to ladies, the broadcaster mentioned. NBC Information couldn't immediately verify the account.

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

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

When requested what the music was, she stated it gave the impression of, “I want individuals 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 stated she and a friend grabbed their instructor’s phone and referred to as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship assist as a result of we’re in bother.” 

Within the Tuesday horror, 19 youngsters and two teachers have been killed, and one other 17 had been wounded.

A Robb Elementary trainer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, advised NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert employees of a lockdown, went off after pictures had been fired and children started to hide under their desks in the class. 

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

“It was a traditional day until my instructor said we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was capturing within the 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 began to shoot. 

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

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

“I think he was aiming at me,” Samuel mentioned. “I performed dead so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

When police finally entered the room and shot the gunman, the kids have been evacuated. Within the rushed exit, Samuel saw the bodies of his instructor and different pupils.

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

The investigation into the capturing is ongoing, and plenty 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 convention Thursday, Texas officers walked back previously launched info, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a school police officer and entered the college constructing unobstructed.

Police now say it took over an hour from the primary 911 name to cease the massacre.

Officers shared a new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a automobile near the college and shot at two people exterior a funeral residence across the road, 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 school 10 minutes later and four minutes later police were on the scene. The primary officers on the scene called 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, mentioned Thursday.

Texas investigators informed NBC News victims of the capturing have been present in 4 classrooms.

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

Mother and father and loved ones who have been gathered outside Robb Elementary in the course of the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and shield their children.

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

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

She stated at first she waited patiently then when she turned 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 anyone in handcuffs while securing the crime scene perimeter.”

“Our deputy marshals maintained order and peace within the midst of the grief-stricken group that was gathering across the college."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.