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

Survivors of the Texas elementary college shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie last words of "Good evening" and "You are all gonna die" earlier than opening fire, and how some performed useless to be spared within 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 mentioned the gunman checked out one of her teachers in the eye and said, “Good night” earlier than shooting her.

Miah instructed her story via a CNN producer. She did not need to communicate on digital camera and declined to talk to any males following her experience with the varsity shooting and solely felt comfy speaking to ladies, the broadcaster mentioned. NBC News could not instantly confirm 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 mentioned. She stated she heard “sad music” playing, believing the gunman put it on. 

When asked what the music was, she said it sounded like, “I need individuals to die music.”

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

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

A Robb Elementary instructor, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, advised NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert employees of a lockdown, went off after shots were fired and youngsters began to hide underneath their desks in the class. 

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

“It was a normal day until my instructor mentioned we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was taking pictures within the windows,” he said in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Friday.

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

“He shot the instructor after which he shot the kids,” Samuel stated. 

He explained that he survived by enjoying dead after he bought hit within the leg with shrapnel that hit a chair between him and the shooter.

“I believe 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 have been evacuated. In the rushed exit, Samuel noticed the our bodies of his instructor and other pupils.

“There was blood on the bottom,” he stated. “And there have been youngsters ... full of blood.” 

The investigation into the taking pictures is ongoing, and lots 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 news conference Thursday, Texas officials walked back beforehand launched information, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a college police officer and entered the school constructing unobstructed.

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

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

Officers stated the first 911 call came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the college 10 minutes later and four minutes later police were on the scene. The primary officers on the scene called for backup, however tactical groups 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 advised NBC Information victims of the capturing were present in four lecture rooms.

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

Dad and mom and loved ones who have been gathered exterior Robb Elementary during the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their children.

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

“The police were doing nothing,” she mentioned to the paper. “They were just standing outdoors the fence. They weren’t entering into there or running anywhere.” 

She mentioned at first she waited patiently then when she turned extra fervent 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 anybody in handcuffs while securing the crime scene perimeter.”

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

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.