4th grade survivor of Texas faculty taking pictures describes gunman’s words before opening fireplace

Survivors of the Texas elementary school shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie closing words of "Good evening" and "You're all gonna die" earlier than opening fire, and the way some performed lifeless to be spared within the spray of bullets.

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

She stated the gunman checked out certainly one of her lecturers in the eye and stated, “Good night” before capturing her.

Miah informed her story by way of a CNN producer. She did not need to speak on camera and declined to talk to any males following her experience with the varsity shooting and solely felt comfortable speaking to ladies, the broadcaster said. NBC News could not instantly 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 fireplace, Miah mentioned. She mentioned she heard “sad music” enjoying, believing the gunman put it on. 

When asked what the music was, she mentioned it seemed like, “I would like individuals to die music.”

Miah mentioned that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a good friend’s blood on herself to look lifeless. She also stated she and a good friend grabbed their teacher’s cellphone and known as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send help because we’re in trouble.” 

In the Tuesday horror, 19 children and two lecturers have been killed, and one other 17 had been wounded.

A Robb Elementary instructor, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, told 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 hide under their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a traditional day till my instructor mentioned we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was taking pictures in the windows,” he mentioned 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 began to shoot. 

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

He explained that he survived by enjoying useless 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 said. “I performed useless so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

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

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

The investigation into the shooting is ongoing, and lots of 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 conference Thursday, Texas officers walked again previously launched info, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a faculty police officer and entered the school building unobstructed.

Police now say it took over an hour from the primary 911 call to cease the bloodbath.

Officials shared a brand new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a automobile near the varsity and shot at two individuals exterior a funeral residence across the road, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officials mentioned the primary 911 name 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 called for backup, but tactical teams didn’t arrive till 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 shooting were present in four classrooms.

Robb Elementary serves second by way of fourth grade students in 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 outdoors Robb Elementary in the course of the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their youngsters.

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

“The police had been doing nothing,” she mentioned to the paper. “They were just standing exterior the fence. They weren’t going in there or operating anyplace.” 

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

Marshals instructed NBC Information in a press release that deputy marshals “by no means arrested or positioned anybody in handcuffs while securing the crime scene perimeter.”

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

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.