4th grade survivor of Texas faculty taking pictures describes gunman’s words before opening fire

Survivors of the Texas elementary faculty capturing are recounting the gunman's eerie closing phrases of "Good evening" and "You are all gonna die" before opening hearth, and the way some performed lifeless 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 in the eye and mentioned, “Good night time” before capturing her.

Miah advised her story by a CNN producer. She did not need to speak on digicam and declined to talk to any males following her experience with the college taking pictures and solely felt comfortable chatting with ladies, the broadcaster said. NBC News couldn't instantly confirm 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 fire, Miah mentioned. She said she heard “unhappy music” playing, believing the gunman put it on. 

When requested what the music was, she said it gave the impression of, “I need people to die music.”

Miah mentioned that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a friend’s blood on herself to look dead. She additionally mentioned she and a buddy grabbed their trainer’s telephone and known as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send assist because we’re in trouble.” 

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

A Robb Elementary instructor, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, instructed NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert employees of a lockdown, went off after pictures had been fired and kids started to hide under their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a normal day until my teacher said we’re on extreme lockdown” and “then there was capturing within the home 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,” and then began to shoot. 

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

He defined that he survived by playing useless after he obtained 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 lifeless so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

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

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

The investigation into the taking pictures is ongoing, and many 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 again previously released info, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a school police officer and entered the varsity constructing unobstructed.

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

Officials shared a brand new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a automobile close to the varsity and shot at two individuals exterior a funeral house across the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

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

Texas investigators told NBC News victims of the shooting had been found in four lecture rooms.

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

Mother and father and loved ones who had been gathered outdoors Robb Elementary through the taking pictures begged and shouted at police to enter and shield their children.

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

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

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

Marshals told NBC News in an announcement that deputy marshals “never arrested or placed anybody in handcuffs whereas securing the crime scene perimeter.”

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

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.