4th grade survivor of Texas college taking pictures describes gunman’s phrases earlier than opening fireplace

Survivors of the Texas elementary faculty shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie remaining words of "Good evening" and "You are all gonna die" earlier than opening fire, and the way some performed useless to be spared in the spray of bullets.

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

She stated the gunman looked at one among her lecturers within the eye and mentioned, “Good night time” earlier than taking pictures her.

Miah told her story via a CNN producer. She didn't want to speak on digicam and declined to speak to any men following her experience with the varsity capturing and only felt comfortable speaking to women, the broadcaster said. NBC Information could not immediately verify 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 stated. She said she heard “sad music” enjoying, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

Miah mentioned that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a buddy’s blood on herself to look dead. She additionally said she and a good friend grabbed their instructor’s telephone and known as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send help because we’re in trouble.” 

Within the Tuesday horror, 19 children and two teachers 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 workers of a lockdown, went off after photographs had been fired and kids began to cover below their desks within the class. 

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

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

He mentioned that the gunman barged into the classroom, introduced, “You’re all gonna die,” after which started to shoot. 

“He shot the trainer after which he shot the youngsters,” Samuel mentioned. 

He defined that he survived by playing dead after he acquired hit in the leg with shrapnel that hit a chair between him and the shooter.

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

When police finally entered the room and shot the gunman, the kids had been evacuated. In the rushed exit, Samuel saw the bodies of his teacher and different pupils.

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

The investigation into the shooting is ongoing, and plenty of questions remain 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 officials walked again beforehand launched information, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a college police officer and entered the college constructing unobstructed.

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

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

Officials mentioned the first 911 name came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the school 10 minutes later and four minutes later police have been on the scene. The primary officers on the scene called 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 Safety, said 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 students within the small town of Uvalde, which is about 75 miles from the Mexico borders and home to a big Latino group.

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

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

“The police have been doing nothing,” she said to the paper. “They were simply standing exterior the fence. They weren’t getting into there or working anyplace.” 

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

Marshals told NBC News in an announcement that deputy marshals “never arrested or positioned anybody in handcuffs while securing the crime scene perimeter.”

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

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.