4th grade survivor of Texas faculty taking pictures describes gunman’s phrases before opening fireplace

Survivors of the Texas elementary college shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie remaining phrases of "Good night" and "You are all gonna die" earlier than opening hearth, and how some played dead to be spared within the spray of bullets.

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

She said the gunman checked out one among her academics in the eye and mentioned, “Good night” earlier than taking pictures her.

Miah advised her story through a CNN producer. She did not wish to converse on camera and declined to talk to any men following her experience with the varsity shooting and solely felt snug chatting with women, the broadcaster stated. NBC News couldn't immediately confirm 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 stated she heard “sad music” taking part in, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

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

In the Tuesday horror, 19 children and two academics had been killed, and another 17 had been wounded.

A Robb Elementary instructor, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, told NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert staff of a lockdown, went off after pictures were fired and youngsters started to cover underneath their desks in the class. 

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

“It was a normal day until 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 started to shoot. 

“He shot the instructor after which he shot the children,” Samuel said. 

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

“I believe he was aiming at me,” Samuel stated. “I played 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 noticed the our bodies of his teacher and other pupils.

“There was blood on the ground,” he stated. “And there have been youngsters ... full of blood.” 

The investigation into the capturing is ongoing, and lots of questions stay 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 officers walked back previously released data, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a school police officer and entered the school building unobstructed.

Police now say it took over an hour from the primary 911 name to stop the bloodbath.

Officials shared a new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a car close to the college and shot at two individuals outdoors a funeral residence across the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers mentioned the first 911 call came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the college 10 minutes later and four minutes later police were on the scene. The primary officers on the scene known as for backup, but tactical teams didn’t arrive till about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Division of Public Security, stated Thursday.

Texas investigators informed NBC Information victims of the taking pictures had been found in four school rooms.

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

Mother and father and loved ones who have been gathered outdoors Robb Elementary throughout the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their kids.

Angeli Rose Gomez instructed The Wall Avenue Journal she was handcuffed by U.S. marshals outdoors the varsity for repeatedly demanding police enter the varsity. 

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

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

Marshals advised NBC Information in a statement that deputy marshals “by no means arrested or placed anybody in handcuffs whereas securing the crime scene perimeter.”

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

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.