4th grade survivor of Texas college shooting describes gunman’s words earlier than opening fire

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

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

She said the gunman looked at considered one of her academics within the eye and said, “Good evening” before shooting her.

Miah instructed her story through a CNN producer. She did not wish to speak on digital camera and declined to speak to any males following her experience with the school taking pictures and solely felt snug chatting with women, the broadcaster said. NBC News could not immediately 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 said. She stated she heard “sad music” taking part in, believing the gunman put it on. 

When requested what the music was, she stated it gave the impression of, “I need folks to die music.”

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

Within the Tuesday horror, 19 youngsters and two academics had been killed, and one other 17 had been wounded.

A Robb Elementary instructor, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert workers of a lockdown, went off after photographs had been fired and children began to hide under their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a standard day until my trainer stated we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was taking pictures in the home windows,” he mentioned 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,” after which started to shoot. 

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

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

“I think he was aiming at me,” Samuel stated. “I played useless so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

When police lastly entered the room and shot the gunman, the kids were 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 back beforehand 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 primary 911 call to stop the bloodbath.

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

Officers stated the primary 911 name came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the varsity 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 groups didn’t arrive until about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Division of Public Security, mentioned Thursday.

Texas investigators informed NBC News victims of the shooting have been present in 4 lecture rooms.

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

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

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

“The police were doing nothing,” she stated to the paper. “They had been just standing outside the fence. They weren’t getting in there or running wherever.” 

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

Marshals informed NBC News in a press release that deputy marshals “never 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 across the college."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.