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

Survivors of the Texas elementary school capturing are recounting the gunman's eerie last words of "Good evening" and "You're all gonna die" earlier than opening hearth, and the way some played lifeless to be spared in the spray of bullets.

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

She stated the gunman checked out one in all her lecturers within the eye and mentioned, “Good night” earlier than shooting her.

Miah advised her story through a CNN producer. She did not wish to speak on digital camera and declined to speak to any males following her experience with the college capturing and solely felt comfy chatting with girls, the broadcaster stated. NBC Information could not instantly verify the account.

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

After firing shots in her classroom, the shooter went into the adjoining classroom and opened hearth, Miah stated. She said she heard “sad music” enjoying, believing the gunman put it on. 

When asked what the music was, she mentioned it sounded like, “I want people to die music.”

Miah stated 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 friend grabbed their teacher’s phone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship assist as a result of we’re in bother.” 

In the Tuesday horror, 19 kids and two academics were killed, and one other 17 have been wounded.

A Robb Elementary instructor, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, informed NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert staff of a lockdown, went off after photographs had been fired and youngsters began to cover underneath their desks in the class. 

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

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

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

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

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

“I believe he was aiming at me,” Samuel said. “I played dead so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

When police lastly entered the room and shot the gunman, the kids were evacuated. In the rushed exit, Samuel noticed the bodies of his trainer and different pupils.

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

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

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

In a information convention Thursday, Texas officials 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 name to stop the bloodbath.

Officers shared a new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a automobile close to the school and shot at two people outdoors a funeral residence across 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 varsity 10 minutes later and four minutes later police have been on the scene. The primary officers on the scene known 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, stated Thursday.

Texas investigators informed NBC News victims of the shooting have been found in four classrooms.

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

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

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

“The police had been doing nothing,” she stated to the paper. “They have been just standing outdoors the fence. They weren’t moving into there or working anywhere.” 

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

Marshals advised NBC Information in a statement that deputy marshals “by no means arrested or positioned anyone in handcuffs while 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 college."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.