4th grade survivor of Texas school shooting describes gunman’s phrases earlier than opening fire

Survivors of the Texas elementary college shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie remaining phrases of "Good evening" and "You're all gonna die" before opening hearth, and how some performed lifeless to be spared in the spray of bullets.

Fourth grade student 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 looked at one in all her teachers within the eye and mentioned, “Good evening” earlier than capturing her.

Miah instructed her story through a CNN producer. She did not need to speak on digicam and declined to talk to any males following her experience with the school capturing and only felt snug chatting with women, the broadcaster said. NBC News couldn't immediately verify the account.

Miah herself was hit by fragments within the hail of bullets, CNN reported.

After firing photographs in her classroom, the shooter went into the adjoining classroom and opened fire, Miah mentioned. She mentioned she heard “unhappy music” enjoying, believing the gunman put it on. 

When requested what the music was, she stated it appeared like, “I would like individuals to die music.”

Miah mentioned that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a good friend’s blood on herself to look dead. She additionally said she and a friend grabbed their instructor’s cellphone and known as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship assist as a result of we’re in trouble.” 

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

A Robb Elementary teacher, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, advised NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert workers of a lockdown, went off after pictures have been fired and children started to hide beneath their desks in the class. 

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

“It was a standard day till my trainer stated we’re on extreme lockdown” and “then there was taking pictures within the 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 began to shoot. 

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

He defined that he survived by enjoying lifeless 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 mentioned. “I performed dead so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

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

“There was blood on the ground,” he said. “And there have been children ... stuffed with blood.” 

The investigation into the shooting is ongoing, and many questions stay 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 conference Thursday, Texas officers walked again previously released info, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a college police officer and entered the college constructing unobstructed.

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

Officers shared a brand new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a automobile close to the school and shot at two folks outdoors a funeral house throughout the road, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers mentioned the primary 911 name came 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 first officers on the scene referred to 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 Security, stated Thursday.

Texas investigators instructed NBC News victims of the shooting were found in four school rooms.

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

Dad and mom and loved ones who have been gathered outside Robb Elementary in the course of the taking pictures begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their kids.

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

“The police were doing nothing,” she mentioned to the paper. “They were simply standing outdoors the fence. They weren’t getting into there or working anywhere.” 

She mentioned 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 energetic investigation. 

Marshals informed NBC Information in a press release 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 neighborhood that was gathering around the faculty."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.