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

Survivors of the Texas elementary faculty capturing are recounting the gunman's eerie final words of "Good night" and "You're all gonna die" earlier than opening fire, and how some performed dead 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 said the gunman looked at one in every of her lecturers in the eye and said, “Good night time” earlier than taking pictures her.

Miah told her story by a CNN producer. She didn't need to converse on digital camera and declined to talk to any men following her expertise with the varsity taking pictures and only felt snug talking to girls, the broadcaster stated. NBC Information couldn't immediately verify 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 hearth, Miah mentioned. She mentioned she heard “unhappy music” enjoying, believing the gunman put it on. 

When asked what the music was, she stated it gave the impression of, “I want people to die music.”

Miah said that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a good friend’s blood on herself to look useless. She also said she and a good friend grabbed their trainer’s phone and referred to as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send help because we’re in trouble.” 

Within the Tuesday horror, 19 youngsters and two academics have been killed, and one other 17 were 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 shots have been fired and kids began to hide underneath their desks in the class. 

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

“It was a traditional day until my trainer said we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was shooting within the windows,” he stated in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Friday.

He mentioned 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 children,” Samuel said. 

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

When police finally entered the room and shot the gunman, the children were evacuated. In the rushed exit, Samuel noticed the bodies of his teacher and different 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 lengthy to take out the gunman.

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

In a information convention Thursday, Texas officers walked back beforehand released info, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a faculty police officer and entered the varsity constructing 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 automobile near the school and shot at two people outside a funeral home across the road, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers said the first 911 name got here in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the college 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 Safety, stated Thursday.

Texas investigators told NBC Information victims of the capturing were found in 4 classrooms.

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

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

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

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

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

Marshals informed NBC News in a press release that deputy marshals “never arrested or positioned anybody in handcuffs while securing the crime scene perimeter.”

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

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.