4th grade survivor of Texas college capturing describes gunman’s phrases earlier than opening fire

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" earlier than opening fire, and how some played lifeless to be spared within the spray of bullets.

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

She said the gunman looked at considered one of her academics within the eye and said, “Good night” earlier than shooting her.

Miah advised her story via a CNN producer. She didn't want to speak on digital camera and declined to talk to any males following her expertise with the college capturing and only felt comfortable chatting with women, the broadcaster mentioned. NBC News could not instantly verify the account.

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

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

When requested what the music was, she stated it gave the impression of, “I need people to die music.”

Miah said that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a buddy’s blood on herself to look dead. She also mentioned she and a buddy grabbed their teacher’s cellphone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send assist because we’re in trouble.” 

In the Tuesday horror, 19 youngsters and two academics have been killed, and another 17 have been wounded.

A Robb Elementary trainer, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, instructed NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert employees of a lockdown, went off after shots had been fired and youngsters began to cover under their desks in the class. 

Samuel Salinas, 10, was a scholar in trainer Irma Garcia’s class on Tuesday when the school taking pictures unfolded.

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

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

“He shot the teacher after which he shot the kids,” Samuel stated. 

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

“I think he was aiming at me,” Samuel stated. “I played useless 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 bodies of his instructor and different pupils.

“There was blood on the ground,” he mentioned. “And there have been children ... full of blood.” 

The investigation into the shooting is ongoing, and many questions stay as to why it took police so long to take out the gunman.

The shooter, Salvador Ramos, 18, was killed at the scene.

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

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

Officers shared a new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a vehicle close to the college and shot at two individuals outside a funeral dwelling across the road, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

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

Texas investigators instructed NBC Information victims of the shooting have been present in four school rooms.

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

Dad and mom and loved ones who have been gathered outdoors Robb Elementary during the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their youngsters.

Angeli Rose Gomez informed The Wall Street Journal she was handcuffed by U.S. marshals outside the school for repeatedly demanding police enter the school. 

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

She mentioned at first she waited patiently then when she became more fervent with her pleas, U.S. marshals allegedly arrested her for intervening in an energetic investigation. 

Marshals advised NBC Information in a press release that deputy marshals “never arrested or placed anybody in handcuffs whereas securing the crime scene perimeter.”

“Our deputy marshals maintained order and peace within the midst of the grief-stricken neighborhood that was gathering across the school."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.