4th grade survivor of Texas school shooting describes gunman’s words before opening fire

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

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

She said the gunman checked out one in all her lecturers within the eye and stated, “Good night time” before shooting her.

Miah told her story by means of a CNN producer. She did not wish to converse on digital camera and declined to speak to any males following her experience with the school shooting and solely felt snug speaking to women, the broadcaster stated. NBC News 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 hearth, Miah said. She said she heard “sad music” taking part in, believing the gunman put it on. 

When requested what the music was, she stated it sounded like, “I would like people to die music.”

Miah stated that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a good friend’s blood on herself to look useless. She also said she and a buddy grabbed their teacher’s cellphone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send assist as a result of 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 teacher, 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 shots had been fired and children began to cover beneath their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a standard day till my teacher mentioned we’re on extreme lockdown” and “then there was shooting within 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 started to shoot. 

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

He explained that he survived by taking part in useless after he received 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 useless so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

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

“There was blood on the ground,” he mentioned. “And there have been kids ... filled with blood.” 

The investigation into the capturing is ongoing, and plenty of questions remain as to why it took police so long to take out the gunman.

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

In a information convention Thursday, Texas officers walked again beforehand launched information, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a faculty police officer and entered the college constructing unobstructed.

Police now say it took over an hour from the primary 911 call to cease the massacre.

Officers shared a new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a vehicle near the varsity and shot at two individuals exterior a funeral residence throughout the road, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers stated the primary 911 name got here in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the college 10 minutes later and four minutes later police were on the scene. The first officers on the scene referred to as for backup, however tactical teams didn’t arrive till about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Division of Public Safety, stated Thursday.

Texas investigators informed NBC Information victims of the shooting were found in four school rooms.

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

Parents and loved ones who had been gathered outside Robb Elementary throughout the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their youngsters.

Angeli Rose Gomez advised The Wall Road 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 mentioned to the paper. “They were simply standing outdoors the fence. They weren’t going in there or operating anyplace.” 

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

Marshals informed NBC News in a statement 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 in the midst of the grief-stricken group that was gathering across the school."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.