4th grade survivor of Texas school taking pictures describes gunman’s phrases before opening hearth

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

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

She said the gunman looked at one in every of her academics in the eye and stated, “Good night” earlier than capturing her.

Miah told her story through a CNN producer. She did not wish to communicate on digital camera and declined to talk to any males following her expertise with the school taking pictures and only felt comfortable chatting with girls, the broadcaster said. NBC Information could not instantly verify the account.

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

After firing shots in her classroom, the shooter went into the adjoining classroom and opened fire, Miah stated. She said she heard “sad music” playing, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

Miah mentioned that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a friend’s blood on herself to look lifeless. She also said she and a pal grabbed their teacher’s cellphone and referred to as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship help because we’re in trouble.” 

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

A Robb Elementary instructor, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, informed NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert employees of a lockdown, went off after photographs have been fired and kids started to hide beneath their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a normal day until my teacher stated we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was shooting within the home windows,” he mentioned in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Friday.

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

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

He defined that he survived by enjoying useless after he got hit in the leg with shrapnel that hit a chair between him and the shooter.

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

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

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

The investigation into the taking pictures is ongoing, and plenty of questions remain 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 again previously released data, 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 call to cease the bloodbath.

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 individuals outside a funeral home throughout the road, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officials stated the primary 911 call came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the varsity 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police had been on the scene. The first officers on the scene known as for backup, but 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 News victims of the capturing had been present in 4 school rooms.

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

Parents and loved ones who had been gathered outside Robb Elementary throughout the taking pictures begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their kids.

Angeli Rose Gomez instructed The Wall Road Journal she was handcuffed by U.S. marshals outside the school for repeatedly demanding police enter the college. 

“The police had been doing nothing,” she stated to the paper. “They had been simply standing outside the fence. They weren’t getting in there or working wherever.” 

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

Marshals advised NBC Information in a statement 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 around the school."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.