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

Survivors of the Texas elementary school shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie last words of "Good evening" and "You are all gonna die" before opening fireplace, and how some played lifeless to be spared within the spray of bullets.

Fourth grade student 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 looked at one among her academics within the eye and stated, “Good night” before taking pictures her.

Miah informed her story via a CNN producer. She didn't need to converse on digicam and declined to talk to any males following her expertise with the college capturing and solely felt comfortable speaking to girls, the broadcaster said. NBC Information couldn't 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 mentioned. She mentioned she heard “sad music” taking part in, believing the gunman put it on. 

When requested what the music was, she said it gave the impression of, “I want folks to die music.”

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

In the Tuesday horror, 19 children and two lecturers were killed, and one other 17 were wounded.

A Robb Elementary trainer, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, instructed NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert staff of a lockdown, went off after pictures were fired and children began to hide below their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a normal day until my teacher mentioned we’re on extreme lockdown” and “then there was capturing within the home windows,” he stated 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,” and then started to shoot. 

“He shot the trainer and then he shot the children,” Samuel stated. 

He defined that he survived by taking part in dead after he got hit in the leg with shrapnel that hit a chair between him and the shooter.

“I believe 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 kids were evacuated. In the rushed exit, Samuel saw the bodies of his instructor and different pupils.

“There was blood on the ground,” he said. “And there were children ... full of blood.” 

The investigation into the capturing is ongoing, and many 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 information convention Thursday, Texas officers walked again beforehand launched information, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a school police officer and entered the varsity building unobstructed.

Police now say it took over an hour from the primary 911 name to cease the bloodbath.

Officers shared a new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a vehicle near the school and shot at two people outdoors a funeral dwelling throughout the road, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers said the primary 911 call got here in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the school 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police were on the scene. The first officers on the scene referred to as for backup, however tactical groups didn’t arrive till 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 taking pictures have been present in four school rooms.

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

Parents and loved ones who had been gathered outside Robb Elementary during the taking pictures begged and shouted at police to enter and shield their kids.

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

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

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

Marshals informed NBC News in a statement that deputy marshals “never arrested or placed 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 news reporter for NBC News Digital.

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.