4th grade survivor of Texas college shooting describes gunman’s phrases before opening fireplace

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

Fourth grade scholar Miah Cerrillo, 11, informed 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 all her lecturers in the eye and said, “Good evening” before shooting her.

Miah informed her story by a CNN producer. She didn't wish to communicate on camera and declined to speak to any males following her expertise with the college taking pictures and solely felt comfy chatting with girls, the broadcaster mentioned. NBC Information couldn't instantly verify the account.

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

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

When requested what the music was, she stated it gave the impression of, “I would like individuals to die music.”

Miah mentioned that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a friend’s blood on herself to look useless. She additionally said she and a friend grabbed their trainer’s cellphone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship assist because we’re in trouble.” 

Within the Tuesday horror, 19 youngsters and two academics were killed, and another 17 had been wounded.

A Robb Elementary trainer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, advised NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert workers of a lockdown, went off after photographs had been fired and youngsters began to hide under their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a standard day until my trainer stated we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was capturing in the home windows,” he mentioned 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,” and then started to shoot. 

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

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

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

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

The investigation into the capturing is ongoing, and lots of questions remain 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 information, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a school police officer and entered the college building unobstructed.

Police now say it took over an hour from the first 911 call to cease the bloodbath.

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

Officials said the first 911 name got here in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the varsity 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police have been on the scene. The first officers on the scene known as for backup, but tactical teams 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 News victims of the taking pictures were found in 4 school rooms.

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

Mother and father and family members who had been gathered outside Robb Elementary through the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their kids.

Angeli Rose Gomez advised The Wall Street 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 simply standing outdoors the fence. They weren’t getting into there or running wherever.” 

She mentioned at first she waited patiently then when she grew to become extra fervent together 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 whereas 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 school."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.