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

Survivors of the Texas elementary faculty capturing are recounting the gunman's eerie final phrases of "Good night time" and "You're all gonna die" before opening fireplace, and how some played useless to be spared in the spray of bullets.

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

She mentioned the gunman looked at one of her lecturers in the eye and stated, “Good night time” earlier than shooting her.

Miah told her story by a CNN producer. She did not need to communicate on digicam and declined to speak to any men following her expertise with the college taking pictures and solely felt snug talking to women, the broadcaster mentioned. NBC News could not 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 fireplace, Miah said. She said she heard “unhappy music” enjoying, believing the gunman put it on. 

When asked what the music was, she said it seemed like, “I want people to die music.”

Miah mentioned that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a buddy’s blood on herself to look lifeless. She additionally said she and a friend grabbed their trainer’s telephone and referred to as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send assist because we’re in hassle.” 

In the Tuesday horror, 19 youngsters and two teachers were killed, and another 17 were wounded.

A Robb Elementary trainer, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, told NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert employees of a lockdown, went off after shots had been fired and children started to cover below their desks in the class. 

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

“It was a normal day till my trainer said we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was shooting within the windows,” he said 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,” after which began to shoot. 

“He shot the teacher after which he shot the youngsters,” Samuel mentioned. 

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

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

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

“There was blood on the ground,” he mentioned. “And there were kids ... full of blood.” 

The investigation into the taking pictures is ongoing, and plenty of questions stay as to why it took police so long to take out the gunman.

The shooter, Salvador Ramos, 18, was killed on the scene.

In a news conference Thursday, Texas officers walked back beforehand launched data, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a college police officer and entered the college constructing unobstructed.

Police now say it took over an hour from the first 911 call to stop the bloodbath.

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

Officers stated the primary 911 call came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the college 10 minutes later and four minutes later police had 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 instructed NBC News victims of the capturing have been present in four school rooms.

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

Dad and mom and loved ones who had been gathered outdoors Robb Elementary during the taking pictures begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their children.

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

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

She said 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 energetic investigation. 

Marshals told NBC Information 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 around the college."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.