4th grade survivor of Texas college shooting describes gunman’s phrases before opening fireplace

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

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

She stated the gunman checked out one among her academics in the eye and mentioned, “Good night” before capturing her.

Miah told her story through a CNN producer. She didn't need to communicate on digital camera and declined to talk to any men following her expertise with the college capturing and only felt comfortable speaking to ladies, the broadcaster mentioned. NBC News couldn't instantly 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 hearth, Miah mentioned. She stated she heard “sad music” taking part in, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

Miah mentioned that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a friend’s blood on herself to look dead. She additionally mentioned she and a good friend grabbed their trainer’s telephone and referred to as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send help as a result of we’re in trouble.” 

In the Tuesday horror, 19 youngsters and two academics have been killed, and another 17 had been wounded.

A Robb Elementary teacher, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, informed NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert staff of a lockdown, went off after shots were fired and children started to hide under their desks in the class. 

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

“It was a traditional day till my trainer mentioned we’re on severe 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 started to shoot. 

“He shot the teacher and then he shot the kids,” Samuel mentioned. 

He defined 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 think he was aiming at me,” Samuel mentioned. “I performed dead so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

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

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

The investigation into the capturing is ongoing, and many 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 conference Thursday, Texas officials walked again previously launched information, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a faculty police officer and entered the college building unobstructed.

Police now say it took over an hour from the primary 911 name to stop the massacre.

Officers shared a new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a automobile close to the school and shot at two individuals outdoors a funeral dwelling throughout the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers stated the first 911 name came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the school 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police had been on the scene. The primary officers on the scene referred to as for backup, however tactical teams didn’t arrive until about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Department of Public Security, stated Thursday.

Texas investigators informed NBC News victims of the shooting have been found in four school rooms.

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

Mother and father and family members who have been gathered exterior Robb Elementary during the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their youngsters.

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

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

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

Marshals informed NBC Information in an announcement that deputy marshals “never arrested or positioned anyone in handcuffs whereas securing the crime scene perimeter.”

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

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.