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

Survivors of the Texas elementary college shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie closing phrases of "Good evening" and "You are all gonna die" earlier than opening fireplace, and how some played lifeless to be spared in the spray of bullets.

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

She mentioned the gunman looked at certainly one of her lecturers in the eye and said, “Good evening” earlier than capturing her.

Miah instructed her story by a CNN producer. She did not wish to converse on digital camera and declined to speak to any men following her experience with the school taking pictures and only felt comfortable chatting with ladies, the broadcaster stated. NBC News couldn't immediately confirm 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 fireplace, Miah mentioned. She stated she heard “sad music” taking part in, believing the gunman put it on. 

When asked what the music was, she mentioned it sounded like, “I would like individuals to die music.”

Miah stated that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a pal’s blood on herself to look useless. She also mentioned she and a buddy grabbed their teacher’s phone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship help because we’re in bother.” 

Within the Tuesday horror, 19 kids and two teachers were killed, and one other 17 have been wounded.

A Robb Elementary instructor, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, told NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert workers of a lockdown, went off after shots have been fired and children began to hide underneath their desks in the class. 

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

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

He stated that the gunman barged into the classroom, announced, “You’re all gonna die,” after which started to shoot. 

“He shot the trainer after which he shot the youngsters,” Samuel said. 

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

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

When police lastly entered the room and shot the gunman, the youngsters were evacuated. Within the rushed exit, Samuel saw 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 taking pictures 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 on the scene.

In a news convention Thursday, Texas officials walked back beforehand launched information, 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 call to stop the bloodbath.

Officials shared a new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a vehicle close to the college and shot at two folks outside a funeral dwelling across the road, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officials said the first 911 call got here in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the varsity 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police had been on the scene. The primary officers on the scene known as for backup, but tactical groups didn’t arrive till about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Division of Public Security, said Thursday.

Texas investigators advised NBC News victims of the shooting had been found 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 residential to a large Latino neighborhood.

Mother and father and family members who were gathered exterior Robb Elementary during the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and shield their children.

Angeli Rose Gomez informed The Wall Street Journal she was handcuffed by U.S. marshals outside the school for repeatedly demanding police enter the college. 

“The police had been doing nothing,” she stated to the paper. “They had been simply standing outdoors the fence. They weren’t stepping into there or operating anyplace.” 

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

Marshals told NBC News in an announcement that deputy marshals “never arrested or placed anyone 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 faculty."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.