4th grade survivor of Texas faculty capturing describes gunman’s phrases earlier than opening fireplace

Survivors of the Texas elementary faculty taking pictures are recounting the gunman's eerie final phrases of "Good night time" and "You're all gonna die" before opening fire, and the way some played dead to be spared within the spray of bullets.

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

She said the gunman checked out one of her teachers in the eye and mentioned, “Good night” before capturing her.

Miah instructed her story by a CNN producer. She did not wish to speak on camera and declined to speak to any males following her expertise with the college capturing and only felt comfy talking to ladies, the broadcaster said. NBC News couldn't immediately verify the account.

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

After firing photographs in her classroom, the shooter went into the adjoining classroom and opened hearth, Miah stated. She mentioned she heard “unhappy music” enjoying, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

Miah said that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a friend’s blood on herself to look useless. She additionally stated she and a friend grabbed their trainer’s telephone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship help because we’re in bother.” 

Within the Tuesday horror, 19 children and two lecturers had been killed, and another 17 were wounded.

A Robb Elementary teacher, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, informed NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert staff of a lockdown, went off after shots had been fired and kids started to cover below their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a normal day until my trainer stated we’re on extreme lockdown” and “then there was capturing within the home windows,” he mentioned 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 trainer and then he shot the kids,” Samuel said. 

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

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

When police finally entered the room and shot the gunman, the kids were evacuated. In the rushed exit, Samuel noticed the bodies of his trainer and other pupils.

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

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

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

In a news conference Thursday, Texas officers walked again previously released data, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a school police officer and entered the varsity building unobstructed.

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

Officials 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 outdoors a funeral home throughout the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officials said the first 911 call came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the college 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police were on the scene. The first officers on the scene known 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, stated Thursday.

Texas investigators told NBC News victims of the shooting have been found in four school rooms.

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

Parents and family members who had been gathered outdoors Robb Elementary throughout the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their youngsters.

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

“The police were doing nothing,” she mentioned to the paper. “They were simply standing exterior the fence. They weren’t going in there or operating wherever.” 

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 lively investigation. 

Marshals advised NBC News 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 within the midst of the grief-stricken group that was gathering around the college."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.