4th grade survivor of Texas faculty taking pictures describes gunman’s words before opening fireplace

Survivors of the Texas elementary school shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie closing words of "Good evening" and "You're all gonna die" earlier than opening fireplace, and how some performed dead to be spared in the spray of bullets.

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

She mentioned the gunman checked out certainly one of her lecturers within the eye and stated, “Good night” before capturing her.

Miah informed her story by way of a CNN producer. She did not need to speak on digicam and declined to speak to any men following her expertise with the college shooting and solely felt comfy talking to girls, the broadcaster said. NBC Information could not instantly confirm the account.

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

After firing shots in her classroom, the shooter went into the adjoining classroom and opened fireplace, Miah mentioned. She said she heard “unhappy music” playing, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

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

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

A Robb Elementary trainer, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, instructed NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert workers of a lockdown, went off after photographs had been fired and youngsters began to hide beneath their desks in the class. 

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

“It was a normal day until my instructor stated we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was taking pictures in the 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 instructor after which he shot the children,” Samuel said. 

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

“I believe he was aiming at me,” Samuel said. “I played dead 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 trainer and different pupils.

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

The investigation into the shooting 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 at the scene.

In a information convention Thursday, Texas officers walked back previously 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 primary 911 name to stop the bloodbath.

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

Officials said the primary 911 call 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 primary officers on the scene referred to as for backup, but tactical teams didn’t arrive until about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Division of Public Safety, said Thursday.

Texas investigators advised NBC Information victims of the taking pictures have been found in 4 school rooms.

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

Dad and mom and loved ones who have been gathered exterior Robb Elementary through the taking pictures begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their children.

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

“The police had been doing nothing,” she said to the paper. “They have been just standing exterior the fence. They weren’t going in there or working anyplace.” 

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

Marshals informed NBC Information in a press release 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 neighborhood that was gathering across the school."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.