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

Survivors of the Texas elementary college taking pictures are recounting the gunman's eerie final phrases of "Good evening" and "You are all gonna die" before opening fireplace, and how some performed useless to be spared in the spray of bullets.

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

She stated the gunman looked at considered one of her lecturers in the eye and stated, “Good night time” before capturing her.

Miah advised her story through a CNN producer. She did not want to speak on digicam and declined to talk to any males following her expertise with the varsity taking pictures and solely felt snug speaking to ladies, the broadcaster mentioned. NBC Information could not immediately confirm the account.

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

After firing photographs in her classroom, the shooter went into the adjoining classroom and opened hearth, Miah stated. She stated she heard “unhappy music” enjoying, believing the gunman put it on. 

When asked what the music was, she mentioned it sounded like, “I would like 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 useless. She additionally stated she and a pal grabbed their teacher’s phone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send help because we’re in bother.” 

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

A Robb Elementary instructor, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, told NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert staff of a lockdown, went off after photographs had been fired and children started to hide beneath their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a standard day until my teacher mentioned we’re on extreme lockdown” and “then there was capturing within the home windows,” he mentioned in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Friday.

He stated that the gunman barged into the classroom, announced, “You’re all gonna die,” after which began to shoot. 

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

He explained that he survived by taking part in useless after he bought hit in the leg with shrapnel that hit a chair between him and the shooter.

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

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

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

The investigation into the taking pictures 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 on the scene.

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

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

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

Officials stated the primary 911 name came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the school 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police were on the scene. The first officers on the scene called for backup, but tactical teams didn’t arrive till about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Department of Public Safety, stated Thursday.

Texas investigators instructed NBC Information victims of the shooting have been present in 4 lecture rooms.

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

Mother and father and loved ones who were gathered outside Robb Elementary throughout the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their children.

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

“The police were doing nothing,” she said to the paper. “They were just standing outside the fence. They weren’t moving into there or running wherever.” 

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 active investigation. 

Marshals advised NBC News in an announcement that deputy marshals “by no means 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 school."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.