4th grade survivor of Texas college taking pictures describes gunman’s words earlier than opening hearth

Survivors of the Texas elementary school shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie remaining words of "Good evening" and "You're all gonna die" before opening fire, and how some performed lifeless to be spared in the spray of bullets.

Fourth grade student 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 academics in the eye and mentioned, “Good evening” before capturing her.

Miah instructed her story by way of a CNN producer. She didn't want to communicate on digicam and declined to talk to any men following her expertise with the college taking pictures and only felt comfy chatting with women, the broadcaster mentioned. NBC News could not immediately 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 fireplace, Miah said. She mentioned she heard “unhappy music” playing, believing the gunman put it on. 

When asked what the music was, she said it seemed like, “I want people to die music.”

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

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

A Robb Elementary instructor, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, instructed NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert staff of a lockdown, went off after shots were fired and youngsters started to cover underneath their desks within the class. 

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

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

He stated that the gunman barged into the classroom, announced, “You’re all gonna die,” after which began to shoot. 

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

He explained that he survived by playing useless after he received hit in the leg with shrapnel that hit a chair between him and the shooter.

“I think he was aiming at me,” Samuel stated. “I performed lifeless so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

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

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

The investigation into the capturing is ongoing, and plenty of questions remain as to why it took police so lengthy to take out the gunman.

The shooter, Salvador Ramos, 18, was killed on the scene.

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

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

Officials shared a new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a car close to the varsity and shot at two folks exterior a funeral house across the road, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers stated the first 911 call came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the college 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police were on the scene. The primary officers on the scene referred to as 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, mentioned Thursday.

Texas investigators advised NBC News victims of the taking pictures have been found in four school rooms.

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

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

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

“The police have been doing nothing,” she mentioned to the paper. “They have been simply standing outdoors 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 energetic investigation. 

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

“Our deputy marshals maintained order and peace in the midst of the grief-stricken group that was gathering around the college."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.