4th grade survivor of Texas college taking pictures describes gunman’s words earlier than opening fireplace

Survivors of the Texas elementary faculty capturing are recounting the gunman's eerie closing words of "Good evening" and "You're all gonna die" earlier than opening fire, and the way some performed useless to be spared in the spray of bullets.

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

She mentioned the gunman looked at considered one of her teachers in the eye and mentioned, “Good evening” before capturing her.

Miah told her story through a CNN producer. She didn't wish to communicate on digital camera and declined to speak to any men following her experience with the college taking pictures and only felt comfy talking to women, the broadcaster mentioned. NBC News couldn't immediately confirm the account.

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

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

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

Miah stated that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a buddy’s blood on herself to look lifeless. She additionally said she and a good friend grabbed their teacher’s phone and referred to as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship assist as a result of we’re in bother.” 

In the Tuesday horror, 19 children and two academics were killed, and another 17 were wounded.

A Robb Elementary instructor, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, informed NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert employees of a lockdown, went off after shots have been fired and children started to cover below their desks in the class. 

Samuel Salinas, 10, was a scholar in trainer Irma Garcia’s class on Tuesday when the varsity shooting unfolded.

“It was a traditional day until my trainer stated we’re on extreme lockdown” and “then there was capturing in the home windows,” he stated 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,” after which began to shoot. 

“He shot the teacher and then he shot the youngsters,” Samuel said. 

He defined that he survived by enjoying lifeless after he obtained hit in the leg with shrapnel that hit a chair between him and the shooter.

“I believe 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 were evacuated. In the rushed exit, Samuel saw the our bodies of his trainer and different pupils.

“There was blood on the ground,” he mentioned. “And there were youngsters ... full of blood.” 

The investigation into the taking pictures is ongoing, and plenty 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 information conference Thursday, Texas officers walked back previously released info, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a faculty police officer and entered the varsity constructing unobstructed.

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

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

Officers mentioned the primary 911 call got here in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the varsity 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police have been on the scene. The primary officers on the scene called 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, stated Thursday.

Texas investigators instructed NBC News victims of the shooting have been found in 4 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 residential to a large Latino group.

Dad and mom and loved ones who were gathered outside Robb Elementary through the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and shield their youngsters.

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

“The police have been doing nothing,” she mentioned to the paper. “They were simply standing outdoors the fence. They weren’t getting into there or running anyplace.” 

She mentioned at first she waited patiently then when she turned more fervent 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 placed anyone in handcuffs while 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.