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

Survivors of the Texas elementary school shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie last phrases of "Good evening" and "You're all gonna die" before opening fire, 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 Stitch” when the shooter appeared Tuesday at Robb Elementary in Uvalde.

She stated the gunman looked at one among her teachers in the eye and stated, “Good night” earlier than capturing her.

Miah advised her story via a CNN producer. She did not want to speak on digicam and declined to speak to any males following her expertise with the school capturing and only felt comfy chatting with girls, the broadcaster said. NBC News couldn't 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 fire, Miah said. She mentioned she heard “unhappy music” taking part in, believing the gunman put it on. 

When asked what the music was, she stated it gave the impression of, “I want individuals to die music.”

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

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

A Robb Elementary teacher, 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 pictures were fired and kids began to hide underneath their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a traditional day till my teacher mentioned 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, introduced, “You’re all gonna die,” after which started to shoot. 

“He shot the instructor after which he shot the kids,” Samuel stated. 

He defined that he survived by enjoying lifeless after he bought 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 performed useless so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

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

“There was blood on the ground,” he said. “And there were youngsters ... filled with 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 officials walked back beforehand launched data, 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 call to cease the bloodbath.

Officers shared a brand new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a vehicle close to the varsity and shot at two folks outside a funeral residence across the road, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officials mentioned the primary 911 name got here in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the school 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police have been on the scene. The first officers on the scene called for backup, however tactical groups didn’t arrive till about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Department of Public Security, mentioned Thursday.

Texas investigators advised NBC News victims of the taking pictures were found in four classrooms.

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

Mother and father and loved ones who were gathered outdoors Robb Elementary in the course of the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and shield their kids.

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

“The police have been doing nothing,” she mentioned to the paper. “They had been just standing outdoors the fence. They weren’t getting in there or operating wherever.” 

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

Marshals instructed NBC Information in an announcement that deputy marshals “by no means arrested or positioned anybody in handcuffs whereas securing the crime scene perimeter.”

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

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.