4th grade survivor of Texas faculty shooting describes gunman’s phrases earlier than opening fire

Survivors of the Texas elementary faculty shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie last words of "Good evening" and "You're all gonna die" before opening hearth, and how some played useless to be spared in the spray of bullets.

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

She mentioned the gunman looked at certainly one of her academics within the eye and said, “Good night time” earlier than taking pictures her.

Miah informed her story via a CNN producer. She did not need to converse on camera and declined to talk to any males following her experience with the college capturing and only felt comfortable talking to girls, the broadcaster said. NBC News could not instantly confirm 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 fire, Miah said. She stated she heard “sad music” playing, believing the gunman put it on. 

When requested what the music was, she mentioned it appeared like, “I need folks to die music.”

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

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

A Robb Elementary instructor, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, instructed NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert staff of a lockdown, went off after photographs had been fired and kids started to cover under their desks in the class. 

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

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

He said that the gunman barged into the classroom, introduced, “You’re all gonna die,” after which began to shoot. 

“He shot the trainer and then he shot the kids,” Samuel mentioned. 

He defined that he survived by playing dead after he received 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 played useless so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

When police finally entered the room and shot the gunman, the youngsters have been evacuated. Within the rushed exit, Samuel saw the our bodies of his trainer and other pupils.

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

The investigation into the taking pictures is ongoing, and lots of 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 news conference Thursday, Texas officials walked back previously launched 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 call to stop the massacre.

Officers shared a new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a automobile close to the school and shot at two folks exterior a funeral residence across the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officials stated the first 911 call got here in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the college 10 minutes later and four minutes later police had been on the scene. The first 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 Safety, said Thursday.

Texas investigators instructed NBC Information victims of the taking pictures have been found in 4 classrooms.

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

Parents and family members who had been gathered exterior Robb Elementary through the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their kids.

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

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

She mentioned at first she waited patiently then when she grew to become more fervent with her pleas, U.S. marshals allegedly arrested her for intervening in an energetic investigation. 

Marshals informed NBC News in a press release that deputy marshals “by no means arrested or positioned anyone in handcuffs while securing the crime scene perimeter.”

“Our deputy marshals maintained order and peace within the midst of the grief-stricken group that was gathering across the college."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.