4th grade survivor of Texas school capturing describes gunman’s phrases before opening hearth

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

Fourth grade student 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 considered one of her lecturers within the eye and said, “Good evening” earlier than shooting her.

Miah instructed her story by a CNN producer. She did not want to communicate on camera and declined to talk to any men following her experience with the college capturing and only felt comfortable chatting with ladies, the broadcaster said. NBC Information couldn't immediately verify the account.

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

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

When requested what the music was, she said it appeared like, “I would like individuals to die music.”

Miah said that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a good friend’s blood on herself to look lifeless. She additionally mentioned she and a friend grabbed their instructor’s phone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send assist as a result of we’re in trouble.” 

Within the Tuesday horror, 19 children and two academics had been killed, and one other 17 had been wounded.

A Robb Elementary teacher, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, instructed NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert workers of a lockdown, went off after pictures had been fired and kids 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 varsity shooting unfolded.

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

He stated that the gunman barged into the classroom, introduced, “You’re all gonna die,” and then began to shoot. 

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

He defined that he survived by taking part in lifeless 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 played dead so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

When police finally entered the room and shot the gunman, the children were evacuated. In the rushed exit, Samuel noticed the our bodies of his teacher and different pupils.

“There was blood on the bottom,” he mentioned. “And there have been youngsters ... stuffed with blood.” 

The investigation into the shooting is ongoing, and many questions remain as to why it took police so lengthy to take out the gunman.

The shooter, Salvador Ramos, 18, was killed on the scene.

In a news conference Thursday, Texas officers walked again beforehand launched info, 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 primary 911 call to stop the massacre.

Officials shared a new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a vehicle near the college and shot at two folks outdoors a funeral home throughout the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

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

Texas investigators informed NBC Information victims of the shooting had been found in four classrooms.

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

Dad and mom and family members who have been gathered outside Robb Elementary through the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their kids.

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

“The police had been doing nothing,” she stated to the paper. “They have been just standing outside the fence. They weren’t getting into there or running anywhere.” 

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

Marshals instructed NBC Information in an announcement that deputy marshals “never arrested or placed anybody in handcuffs while securing the crime scene perimeter.”

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

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.