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

Survivors of the Texas elementary college taking pictures are recounting the gunman's eerie last phrases of "Good evening" and "You're all gonna die" before opening hearth, and the way some played lifeless to be spared in 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 said the gunman checked out certainly one of her teachers in the eye and mentioned, “Good night” before taking pictures her.

Miah advised her story by way of a CNN producer. She did not wish to speak on camera and declined to talk to any males following her expertise with the college taking pictures and solely felt snug chatting with women, the broadcaster said. NBC Information could not instantly verify the account.

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

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

When requested what the music was, she stated it seemed like, “I need individuals to die music.”

Miah stated that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a buddy’s blood on herself to look dead. She also said she and a buddy grabbed their instructor’s cellphone and known as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship assist because we’re in trouble.” 

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

A Robb Elementary trainer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, informed 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 cover below their desks in the class. 

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

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

He said that the gunman barged into the classroom, announced, “You’re all gonna die,” and then started to shoot. 

“He shot the instructor and then he shot the kids,” Samuel stated. 

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

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

When police lastly entered the room and shot the gunman, the children have been evacuated. Within the rushed exit, Samuel noticed the our bodies of his teacher and other pupils.

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

The investigation into the capturing is ongoing, and many 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 news conference Thursday, Texas officers walked again previously released info, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a college police officer and entered the varsity constructing unobstructed.

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

Officials shared a new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a automobile close to the varsity and shot at two people outside a funeral dwelling throughout the road, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers stated the first 911 name got here in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the varsity 10 minutes later and four minutes later police have been on the scene. The primary officers on the scene called for backup, but tactical teams didn’t arrive until about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Division of Public Security, stated Thursday.

Texas investigators instructed NBC Information victims of the capturing were found in four lecture rooms.

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

Parents and family members who have been gathered outside Robb Elementary during the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and shield their children.

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

“The police were doing nothing,” she mentioned to the paper. “They have been simply standing outdoors the fence. They weren’t getting in there or running anywhere.” 

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

Marshals informed NBC Information in a statement that deputy marshals “by no means 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 neighborhood that was gathering across the college."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.