4th grade survivor of Texas school taking pictures describes gunman’s phrases before opening fireplace

Survivors of the Texas elementary college taking pictures are recounting the gunman's eerie closing words of "Good night" and "You're all gonna die" earlier than opening fire, and how some played dead to be spared within 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 stated the gunman looked at considered one of her lecturers within the eye and stated, “Good evening” earlier than capturing her.

Miah instructed her story by a CNN producer. She did not need to converse on digital camera and declined to talk to any males following her expertise with the school shooting and only felt snug speaking 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 shots in her classroom, the shooter went into the adjoining classroom and opened hearth, Miah mentioned. She stated she heard “unhappy music” playing, believing the gunman put it on. 

When asked what the music was, she said it seemed like, “I need folks 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 also said she and a good friend grabbed their trainer’s telephone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship help because we’re in bother.” 

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, advised NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert employees of a lockdown, went off after shots have been fired and children began to cover below their desks in the class. 

Samuel Salinas, 10, was a pupil in teacher Irma Garcia’s class on Tuesday when the school taking pictures unfolded.

“It was a normal day till my teacher mentioned we’re on extreme lockdown” and “then there was shooting within the 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 trainer after which he shot the children,” Samuel mentioned. 

He defined that he survived by enjoying useless after he got hit in the leg with shrapnel that hit a chair between him and the shooter.

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

When police lastly 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 mentioned. “And there were kids ... full of blood.” 

The investigation into the shooting 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 at the scene.

In a information conference Thursday, Texas officers walked back previously released information, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a faculty police officer and entered the college building unobstructed.

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

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

Officers mentioned the primary 911 name came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the school 10 minutes later and four minutes later police have been on the scene. The first officers on the scene called for backup, however tactical teams didn’t arrive until about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Division of Public Safety, stated Thursday.

Texas investigators told NBC News victims of the taking pictures have been present in 4 school rooms.

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

Mother and father and loved ones who have been gathered exterior Robb Elementary during the taking pictures begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their children.

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

“The police have been doing nothing,” she said to the paper. “They were simply standing outdoors the fence. They weren’t going in there or operating anywhere.” 

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

Marshals informed NBC Information in a press release that deputy marshals “by no means 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 community that was gathering around the school."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.