4th grade survivor of Texas faculty taking pictures describes gunman’s phrases earlier than opening fireplace

Survivors of the Texas elementary college capturing are recounting the gunman's eerie final words of "Good evening" and "You're all gonna die" before opening hearth, and how some performed useless to be spared within the spray of bullets.

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

She said the gunman checked out one of her academics within the eye and mentioned, “Good night” earlier than taking pictures her.

Miah instructed her story through a CNN producer. She didn't want to converse on digital camera and declined to talk to any males following her experience with the varsity shooting and solely felt comfortable talking to ladies, the broadcaster mentioned. NBC Information could not immediately confirm 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 stated. She mentioned she heard “sad music” playing, believing the gunman put it on. 

When asked what the music was, she said it appeared 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 additionally mentioned she and a buddy grabbed their instructor’s telephone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship help because we’re in bother.” 

In 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 situation of anonymity, advised NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert staff of a lockdown, went off after pictures had been fired and youngsters began to hide beneath their desks in the class. 

Samuel Salinas, 10, was a pupil in instructor Irma Garcia’s class on Tuesday when the school shooting unfolded.

“It was a standard day until my trainer stated we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was shooting in the home windows,” he mentioned 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 started to shoot. 

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

He defined that he survived by taking part in 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 dead so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

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

“There was blood on the bottom,” he said. “And there have been kids ... filled with blood.” 

The investigation into the shooting 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 at the scene.

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

Police now say it took over an hour from the first 911 call to cease the massacre.

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

Officials mentioned the primary 911 name 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 known as for backup, but tactical groups didn’t arrive until about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Department of Public Safety, mentioned Thursday.

Texas investigators informed NBC Information victims of the taking pictures had been found in 4 classrooms.

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

Parents and family members who have been gathered exterior Robb Elementary through the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their youngsters.

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

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

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

Marshals told NBC Information in a statement that deputy marshals “by no means arrested or positioned anybody in handcuffs while securing the crime scene perimeter.”

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

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.