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

Survivors of the Texas elementary school capturing are recounting the gunman's eerie remaining words of "Good evening" and "You are all gonna die" before opening hearth, and the way some played lifeless to be spared within the spray of bullets.

Fourth grade scholar 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 checked out one of her lecturers within the eye and mentioned, “Good night” before shooting her.

Miah told her story by way of a CNN producer. She didn't want to converse on camera and declined to speak to any men following her experience with the college shooting and solely felt comfortable speaking to ladies, the broadcaster said. NBC Information could not 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 fire, Miah mentioned. She stated she heard “unhappy music” enjoying, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

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

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

A Robb Elementary trainer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert staff of a lockdown, went off after pictures were fired and kids began to hide underneath their desks in the class. 

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

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

He stated that the gunman barged into the classroom, introduced, “You’re all gonna die,” and then began to shoot. 

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

He defined that he survived by enjoying dead after he received 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 played lifeless so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

When police finally entered the room and shot the gunman, the children were evacuated. In the rushed exit, Samuel noticed the our bodies of his trainer and other pupils.

“There was blood on the bottom,” he mentioned. “And there were youngsters ... stuffed 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 at the scene.

In a information conference Thursday, Texas officers walked back beforehand released info, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a school police officer and entered the college building unobstructed.

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

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

Officials stated the first 911 name 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 known as 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, mentioned Thursday.

Texas investigators told NBC News victims of the shooting were present in four classrooms.

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 neighborhood.

Parents and loved ones who were gathered exterior Robb Elementary in the course of the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and shield 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 into there or working wherever.” 

She stated at first she waited patiently then when she grew to become extra fervent 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 community that was gathering across the college."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.