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

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

Fourth grade scholar Miah Cerrillo, 11, informed 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 of her teachers within the eye and said, “Good night time” earlier than capturing her.

Miah advised her story via a CNN producer. She did not need to converse on camera and declined to speak to any men following her expertise with the varsity taking pictures and solely felt comfy chatting with women, the broadcaster mentioned. NBC News could not instantly verify 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 fireplace, Miah stated. She mentioned she heard “sad music” taking part in, believing the gunman put it on. 

When asked what the music was, she said it sounded like, “I want folks 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 useless. She additionally said she and a buddy grabbed their instructor’s telephone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send help because we’re in trouble.” 

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

A Robb Elementary instructor, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert workers of a lockdown, went off after shots had been fired and youngsters started to hide beneath their desks in the class. 

Samuel Salinas, 10, was a student in instructor Irma Garcia’s class on Tuesday when the college taking pictures unfolded.

“It was a standard day until my instructor said we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was capturing in the windows,” he mentioned 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,” after which started to shoot. 

“He shot the teacher and then he shot the kids,” Samuel mentioned. 

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

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

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

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

The investigation into the taking pictures is ongoing, and many 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 officers walked again beforehand released info, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a college police officer and entered the college building unobstructed.

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

Officers shared a new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a vehicle near the college and shot at two folks exterior a funeral home throughout the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers mentioned the primary 911 call came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the varsity 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police had been on the scene. The first officers on the scene known as for backup, but tactical groups didn’t arrive until about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Department of Public Security, said Thursday.

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

Robb Elementary serves second through fourth grade students in the small city of Uvalde, which is about 75 miles from the Mexico borders and home to a big Latino group.

Dad and mom and family members who had been gathered outdoors Robb Elementary through the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their children.

Angeli Rose Gomez informed 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 said to the paper. “They had been simply standing outside the fence. They weren’t getting in there or operating anyplace.” 

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

Marshals advised NBC Information 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 within the midst of the grief-stricken community that was gathering across the college."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.