4th grade survivor of Texas school capturing describes gunman’s words before opening fireplace

Survivors of the Texas elementary school shooting 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 useless to be spared within the spray of bullets.

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

She said the gunman looked at one in all her lecturers within the eye and said, “Good night” earlier than shooting her.

Miah informed her story by means of a CNN producer. She didn't wish to converse on digicam and declined to speak to any males following her expertise with the school capturing and solely felt snug chatting with women, the broadcaster stated. 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 fireplace, Miah said. She mentioned she heard “sad music” taking part in, believing the gunman put it on. 

When requested what the music was, she said it sounded like, “I need individuals to die music.”

Miah mentioned that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a pal’s blood on herself to look dead. She additionally stated she and a buddy grabbed their instructor’s telephone and referred to as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send assist because 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 teacher, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, instructed NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert employees of a lockdown, went off after pictures had been fired and kids began to hide beneath their desks in the class. 

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

“It was a traditional day till my trainer said we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was capturing within the windows,” he said in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Friday.

He said 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 youngsters,” Samuel mentioned. 

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

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

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

“There was blood on the bottom,” he mentioned. “And there have been children ... filled with 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 conference Thursday, Texas officers walked again previously 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 first 911 name 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 outdoors a funeral dwelling across the road, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officials stated the first 911 call came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the varsity 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police have been on the scene. The primary officers on the scene referred to as for backup, but tactical groups didn’t arrive until about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Division of Public Safety, said Thursday.

Texas investigators advised NBC Information victims of the taking pictures were found in 4 lecture rooms.

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

Dad and mom and family members who had been gathered exterior Robb Elementary throughout the taking pictures begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their youngsters.

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

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

She mentioned 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 told NBC Information in a statement that deputy marshals “never arrested or positioned anybody in handcuffs whereas 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 school."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.