4th grade survivor of Texas school shooting describes gunman’s words before opening hearth

Survivors of the Texas elementary school taking pictures are recounting the gunman's eerie closing phrases of "Good evening" and "You are all gonna die" before opening hearth, and the way some played dead 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 checked out one in every of her lecturers in the eye and said, “Good night” before shooting her.

Miah advised her story through a CNN producer. She did not need to communicate on digicam and declined to talk to any males following her experience with the college shooting and solely felt snug talking to ladies, the broadcaster stated. 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 hearth, Miah mentioned. She mentioned she heard “unhappy music” enjoying, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

Miah mentioned that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a friend’s blood on herself to look useless. She also mentioned she and a friend grabbed their trainer’s telephone and known as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send help as a result of we’re in trouble.” 

Within the Tuesday horror, 19 kids and two teachers have been killed, and one other 17 were wounded.

A Robb Elementary instructor, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, informed NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert staff of a lockdown, went off after shots have been fired and children began to hide beneath their desks in the class. 

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

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

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

“He shot the teacher after which he shot the children,” Samuel mentioned. 

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

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

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

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

The investigation into the capturing is ongoing, and lots of questions stay 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 released data, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a faculty police officer and entered the varsity constructing unobstructed.

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

Officers shared a brand new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a car near the school and shot at two individuals outside a funeral residence across the road, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers said the first 911 call got here in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the school 10 minutes later and four minutes later police had been on the scene. The primary officers on the scene called for backup, but tactical groups didn’t arrive till about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Department of Public Safety, stated Thursday.

Texas investigators instructed NBC News victims of the capturing have been found in four lecture rooms.

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

Dad and mom and loved ones who had been gathered outside Robb Elementary through the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their children.

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

“The police have been doing nothing,” she stated to the paper. “They were just standing exterior the fence. They weren’t getting in there or working wherever.” 

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

Marshals instructed NBC Information in a statement that deputy marshals “by no means arrested or placed anybody 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 across the faculty."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.