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

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

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

She mentioned the gunman checked out one of her teachers within the eye and stated, “Good night” earlier than shooting her.

Miah instructed her story through a CNN producer. She did not need to speak on digital camera and declined to speak to any men following her experience with the school capturing and only felt comfortable talking to girls, the broadcaster stated. NBC Information couldn't instantly verify the account.

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

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

When asked what the music was, she said it seemed like, “I would like people to die music.”

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

In the Tuesday horror, 19 youngsters and two lecturers were killed, and one other 17 were wounded.

A Robb Elementary teacher, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert employees of a lockdown, went off after shots have been fired and kids started to cover underneath their desks within the class. 

Samuel Salinas, 10, was a pupil in instructor Irma Garcia’s class on Tuesday when the school taking pictures unfolded.

“It was a standard day till my instructor said we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was taking pictures in the windows,” he mentioned 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,” after which began to shoot. 

“He shot the trainer and then he shot the youngsters,” Samuel stated. 

He explained that he survived by playing lifeless after he got hit within 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 kids had been evacuated. Within the rushed exit, Samuel saw the bodies of his teacher and different pupils.

“There was blood on the ground,” he stated. “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 long to take out the gunman.

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

In a news conference Thursday, Texas officers walked back previously launched info, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a college police officer and entered the college constructing unobstructed.

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

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

Officers 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 known as for backup, but tactical groups didn’t arrive till about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Division of Public Safety, said Thursday.

Texas investigators advised NBC News victims of the capturing have been present 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 home to a large Latino group.

Mother and father and loved ones who were gathered exterior Robb Elementary during the taking pictures begged and shouted at police to enter and shield their children.

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 were doing nothing,” she mentioned to the paper. “They were simply standing outdoors the fence. They weren’t going in there or working anyplace.” 

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

Marshals informed NBC Information in a statement that deputy marshals “never 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 community that was gathering around the school."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.