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

Survivors of the Texas elementary school shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie last phrases of "Good night" and "You are all gonna die" before opening fire, and the way some performed lifeless to be spared within the spray of bullets.

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

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

Miah told her story through a CNN producer. She didn't wish to converse on digital camera and declined to speak to any men following her expertise with the school capturing and only felt comfy speaking to girls, the broadcaster stated. NBC News could not instantly confirm 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 said. She mentioned she heard “unhappy music” playing, believing the gunman put it on. 

When requested what the music was, she stated it seemed like, “I want folks to die music.”

Miah mentioned that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a buddy’s blood on herself to look dead. She additionally stated she and a friend grabbed their trainer’s telephone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship assist as a result of we’re in trouble.” 

In the Tuesday horror, 19 children and two teachers were killed, and another 17 have been wounded.

A Robb Elementary trainer, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, instructed NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert employees of a lockdown, went off after shots have been fired and youngsters started to hide below their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a standard day until my instructor mentioned we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was capturing 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 began to shoot. 

“He shot the instructor and then he shot the children,” Samuel said. 

He defined that he survived by taking part in lifeless after he acquired 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 performed dead so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

When police lastly entered the room and shot the gunman, the youngsters had been evacuated. In the rushed exit, Samuel noticed the our bodies of his trainer and different pupils.

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

The investigation into the taking pictures 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 on the scene.

In a information conference Thursday, Texas officers walked again previously launched data, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a school police officer and entered the school constructing unobstructed.

Police now say it took over an hour from the first 911 name to cease the bloodbath.

Officers shared a new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a car near the college and shot at two individuals exterior a funeral house throughout the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

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

Texas investigators instructed NBC Information victims of the capturing had been found in 4 classrooms.

Robb Elementary serves second through fourth grade students in the small town of Uvalde, which is about 75 miles from the Mexico borders and residential to a big Latino group.

Parents and loved ones who have been gathered outdoors Robb Elementary throughout the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their youngsters.

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

“The police have been doing nothing,” she stated to the paper. “They had been just standing outdoors the fence. They weren’t getting in there or running anyplace.” 

She mentioned at first she waited patiently then when she turned more fervent with her pleas, U.S. marshals allegedly arrested her for intervening in an energetic investigation. 

Marshals advised NBC News in an announcement that deputy marshals “never arrested or positioned anybody 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 information reporter for NBC News Digital.

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.