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

Survivors of the Texas elementary school taking pictures are recounting the gunman's eerie ultimate words of "Good evening" and "You're all gonna die" before opening fire, and how some played dead to be spared in the spray of bullets.

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

She mentioned the gunman checked out one in all her academics in the eye and said, “Good night” earlier than capturing her.

Miah told her story by way of a CNN producer. She did not wish to communicate on digicam and declined to speak to any men following her expertise with the varsity taking pictures and solely felt snug speaking to ladies, the broadcaster mentioned. NBC Information couldn't instantly confirm the account.

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

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

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

Miah stated that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a buddy’s blood on herself to look lifeless. She additionally mentioned she and a buddy grabbed their teacher’s phone and known as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send assist because we’re in hassle.” 

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

A Robb Elementary teacher, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, instructed NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert employees of a lockdown, went off after shots were fired and kids began to cover beneath their desks in the class. 

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

“It was a normal day until my trainer mentioned we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was capturing in the windows,” he said in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Friday.

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

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

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

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

When police finally entered the room and shot the gunman, the youngsters were evacuated. Within the rushed exit, Samuel saw the our bodies of his trainer and other pupils.

“There was blood on the bottom,” he mentioned. “And there have been youngsters ... stuffed with blood.” 

The investigation into the shooting 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 on the scene.

In a information convention Thursday, Texas officials walked again previously released information, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a school police officer and entered the varsity constructing unobstructed.

Police now say it took over an hour from the primary 911 name 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 individuals exterior a funeral dwelling across the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officials said the first 911 call came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the varsity 10 minutes later and four minutes later police had been on the scene. The first officers on the scene known as for backup, however tactical teams didn’t arrive till about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Department of Public Safety, said Thursday.

Texas investigators told NBC News victims of the taking pictures have been found 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 residential to a big Latino neighborhood.

Dad and mom and family members who have been gathered exterior Robb Elementary in the course of the taking pictures begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their kids.

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

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

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

Marshals informed NBC Information in a press release that deputy marshals “never arrested or positioned anyone 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 around the college."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.