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

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

Fourth grade scholar Miah Cerrillo, 11, instructed 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 lecturers within the eye and mentioned, “Good night” before shooting her.

Miah told her story by a CNN producer. She did not want to converse on digital camera and declined to speak to any males following her expertise with the varsity capturing and only felt comfortable chatting with girls, 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 photographs in her classroom, the shooter went into the adjoining classroom and opened fireplace, Miah mentioned. She stated she heard “sad music” enjoying, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

Miah mentioned that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a good friend’s blood on herself to look lifeless. She also mentioned she and a pal grabbed their trainer’s phone and known as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship help because we’re in bother.” 

In the Tuesday horror, 19 kids and two academics were killed, and one other 17 were wounded.

A Robb Elementary trainer, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, advised NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert workers of a lockdown, went off after shots were fired and children started to cover underneath their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a standard day till my trainer said we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was capturing within the home windows,” he mentioned 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 started to shoot. 

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

He explained that he survived by playing useless after he acquired 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 performed useless so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

When police finally entered the room and shot the gunman, the youngsters have been evacuated. Within the rushed exit, Samuel noticed the our bodies of his trainer and different pupils.

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

The investigation into the taking pictures is ongoing, and plenty of questions stay as to why it took police so lengthy to take out the gunman.

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

In a news conference Thursday, Texas officers walked again previously released info, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a faculty police officer and entered the school constructing unobstructed.

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

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

Officials mentioned the first 911 call got here in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the college 10 minutes later and four minutes later police have been on the scene. The primary officers on the scene called for backup, however tactical groups 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 News victims of the taking pictures have been found in 4 school rooms.

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

Dad and mom and loved ones who have been gathered exterior Robb Elementary in the course of the taking pictures begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their kids.

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

“The police had been doing nothing,” she stated to the paper. “They had been simply standing outside the fence. They weren’t getting in there or operating anywhere.” 

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

Marshals instructed NBC Information in a press release that deputy marshals “never arrested or placed anyone in handcuffs whereas securing the crime scene perimeter.”

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

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.