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

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

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

She stated the gunman looked at one in every of her teachers in the eye and mentioned, “Good evening” earlier than shooting her.

Miah advised her story through a CNN producer. She didn't need to communicate on camera and declined to speak to any men following her experience with the school capturing and only felt snug speaking to women, the broadcaster said. NBC News could not instantly verify the account.

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

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

When requested what the music was, she mentioned it sounded like, “I need individuals 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 also mentioned she and a friend grabbed their trainer’s telephone and known as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship assist as a result of we’re in bother.” 

In the Tuesday horror, 19 youngsters and two lecturers have been killed, and another 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 staff of a lockdown, went off after photographs were fired and youngsters started to cover beneath their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a traditional day until my instructor mentioned 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, introduced, “You’re all gonna die,” and then began to shoot. 

“He shot the trainer after which he shot the children,” Samuel stated. 

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

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

When police finally entered the room and shot the gunman, the youngsters were evacuated. Within the rushed exit, Samuel saw the our bodies of his instructor and different pupils.

“There was blood on the bottom,” he said. “And there were youngsters ... stuffed with blood.” 

The investigation into the taking pictures is ongoing, and lots of 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 information conference Thursday, Texas officers walked again previously released info, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a school police officer and entered the college constructing unobstructed.

Police now say it took over an hour from the primary 911 call to cease the massacre.

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

Officials stated the primary 911 name came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the school 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police have been on the scene. The primary officers on the scene called for backup, however tactical teams didn’t arrive till about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Department of Public Security, stated Thursday.

Texas investigators advised NBC Information victims of the capturing were present in 4 lecture rooms.

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

Dad and mom and family members who had been gathered outside Robb Elementary throughout the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and shield their youngsters.

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

“The police had been doing nothing,” she said to the paper. “They had been just 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 energetic investigation. 

Marshals informed NBC Information in a statement that deputy marshals “never arrested or positioned anyone 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 college."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.