4th grade survivor of Texas college capturing describes gunman’s phrases 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 hearth, and how some played dead to be spared in the spray of bullets.

Fourth grade scholar 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 checked out one in every of her teachers in the eye and stated, “Good evening” before shooting her.

Miah advised her story via a CNN producer. She didn't want to converse on digicam and declined to speak to any males following her experience with the varsity taking pictures and solely felt snug speaking to girls, the broadcaster mentioned. NBC Information couldn't instantly verify 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 hearth, Miah said. She mentioned she heard “sad music” playing, believing the gunman put it on. 

When requested what the music was, she stated it gave the impression of, “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 additionally stated she and a pal grabbed their trainer’s telephone and referred to as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send help because we’re in bother.” 

In the Tuesday horror, 19 children and two lecturers had been killed, and one other 17 had been wounded.

A Robb Elementary teacher, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, informed NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert employees of a lockdown, went off after photographs have been fired and kids started to cover under their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a standard day till my trainer stated we’re on extreme lockdown” and “then there was shooting in the windows,” he mentioned in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Friday.

He stated 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 kids,” Samuel said. 

He explained that he survived by enjoying lifeless after he acquired hit within the leg with shrapnel that hit a chair between him and the shooter.

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

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

“There was blood on the bottom,” he said. “And there have been kids ... stuffed with blood.” 

The investigation into the shooting is ongoing, and many questions stay 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 convention Thursday, Texas officials walked again beforehand launched info, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a college police officer and entered the school constructing unobstructed.

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

Officials shared a new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a vehicle close to the school and shot at two people outdoors a funeral residence throughout the road, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers stated the primary 911 call got here in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the college 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police have been on the scene. The primary officers on the scene called for backup, but tactical groups didn’t arrive till about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Department of Public Security, mentioned Thursday.

Texas investigators advised NBC News victims of the capturing had been present in 4 school rooms.

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

Parents and family members who have been gathered outdoors Robb Elementary through the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their kids.

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

“The police had been doing nothing,” she stated to the paper. “They have been simply standing exterior the fence. They weren’t going in there or running anywhere.” 

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

Marshals told NBC Information in an announcement that deputy marshals “by no means arrested or positioned anyone in handcuffs whereas securing the crime scene perimeter.”

“Our deputy marshals maintained order and peace within the midst of the grief-stricken neighborhood that was gathering around the faculty."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.