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

Survivors of the Texas elementary college capturing are recounting the gunman's eerie remaining words of "Good evening" and "You are all gonna die" before opening fireplace, and the way some performed dead to be spared in the spray of bullets.

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

She stated the gunman checked out one among her academics within the eye and said, “Good evening” before shooting her.

Miah told her story by means of a CNN producer. She didn't need to converse on camera and declined to talk to any men following her expertise with the varsity capturing and solely felt snug talking to women, the broadcaster said. NBC Information couldn't immediately 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 hearth, Miah mentioned. She said she heard “sad music” enjoying, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

Miah said that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a friend’s blood on herself to look useless. She additionally mentioned she and a friend grabbed their teacher’s phone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send help as a result of we’re in trouble.” 

In the Tuesday horror, 19 children and two academics had been killed, and one other 17 had been wounded.

A Robb Elementary instructor, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert workers of a lockdown, went off after shots have been fired and kids started to cover below their desks in the class. 

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

“It was a standard day until my instructor said we’re on extreme lockdown” and “then there was shooting in the home windows,” he mentioned 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 teacher after which he shot the youngsters,” Samuel stated. 

He explained that he survived by playing useless after he obtained 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 performed lifeless so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

When police finally entered the room and shot the gunman, the kids have been evacuated. In the rushed exit, Samuel saw the bodies of his teacher and other pupils.

“There was blood on the ground,” he stated. “And there were children ... stuffed 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 convention Thursday, Texas officers walked again previously released data, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a school police officer and entered the school constructing unobstructed.

Police now say it took over an hour from the primary 911 call to stop the bloodbath.

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

Officials said the first 911 name came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the college 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police have been on the scene. The first officers on the scene called for backup, however tactical teams didn’t arrive until about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Division of Public Security, said Thursday.

Texas investigators informed NBC News victims of the taking pictures were present in 4 classrooms.

Robb Elementary serves second by means of fourth grade students in 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 loved ones who had been gathered outdoors Robb Elementary in the course of the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and shield their youngsters.

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

“The police were doing nothing,” she mentioned to the paper. “They had been simply standing outside the fence. They weren’t entering into there or running wherever.” 

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

Marshals informed NBC Information in a press release that deputy marshals “by no means arrested or positioned anyone in handcuffs while securing the crime scene perimeter.”

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

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.