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

Survivors of the Texas elementary school taking pictures are recounting the gunman's eerie final 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 pupil Miah Cerrillo, 11, informed CNN her class was watching “Lilo and Sew” when the shooter appeared Tuesday at Robb Elementary in Uvalde.

She stated the gunman checked out certainly one of her teachers within the eye and mentioned, “Good evening” before capturing her.

Miah informed her story by way of a CNN producer. She did not need to communicate on digicam and declined to talk to any men following her experience with the varsity shooting and only felt comfortable speaking to ladies, the broadcaster mentioned. NBC News 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 fire, Miah stated. She stated she heard “sad music” playing, believing the gunman put it on. 

When requested what the music was, she stated it seemed like, “I want individuals 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 lifeless. She also stated she and a friend grabbed their trainer’s phone and known as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send help because we’re in bother.” 

In the Tuesday horror, 19 kids and two academics were killed, and another 17 were wounded.

A Robb Elementary instructor, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, instructed NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert workers of a lockdown, went off after photographs had been fired and children began to cover beneath their desks in the class. 

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

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

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

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

He explained that he survived by taking part in lifeless 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 played useless so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

When police lastly entered the room and shot the gunman, the youngsters have been evacuated. Within the rushed exit, Samuel saw the our bodies of his teacher and different pupils.

“There was blood on the ground,” he said. “And there were kids ... filled with blood.” 

The investigation into the shooting 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 news convention Thursday, Texas officers walked back previously 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 first 911 call to cease the bloodbath.

Officers 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 residence across the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers mentioned the first 911 name came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the school 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police have been on the scene. The primary officers on the scene known as for backup, however tactical teams didn’t arrive till about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Division of Public Safety, mentioned Thursday.

Texas investigators told NBC Information victims of the capturing had been present in four lecture rooms.

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

Dad and mom and family members who have been gathered outside Robb Elementary throughout the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and shield their children.

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

“The police were doing nothing,” she stated to the paper. “They had been just standing exterior the fence. They weren’t getting into there or running anyplace.” 

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

Marshals instructed NBC News in an announcement 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 group that was gathering around the faculty."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.