4th grade survivor of Texas school shooting describes gunman’s words earlier than opening fireplace

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

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

She stated the gunman checked out considered one of her lecturers within the eye and said, “Good night” before taking pictures her.

Miah told her story via a CNN producer. She didn't wish to communicate on camera and declined to talk to any males following her experience with the varsity shooting and only felt comfortable speaking to women, the broadcaster stated. NBC Information could not instantly confirm 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 hearth, Miah stated. She stated she heard “sad music” taking part in, believing the gunman put it on. 

When asked what the music was, she said it appeared like, “I would like folks to die music.”

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

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

A Robb Elementary teacher, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert staff of a lockdown, went off after pictures have been fired and children began to hide below their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a standard day until my trainer mentioned we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was shooting within the home windows,” he said in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Friday.

He said that the gunman barged into the classroom, announced, “You’re all gonna die,” and then started to shoot. 

“He shot the teacher after which he shot the children,” Samuel mentioned. 

He explained that he survived by taking part in dead after he received hit in the leg with shrapnel that hit a chair between him and the shooter.

“I feel he was aiming at me,” Samuel stated. “I performed lifeless so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

When police lastly entered the room and shot the gunman, the kids have been evacuated. Within the rushed exit, Samuel saw the bodies of his instructor and other pupils.

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

The investigation into the capturing 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 officials walked back beforehand launched info, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a faculty police officer and entered the college building unobstructed.

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

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

Officials mentioned the primary 911 name got here in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the school 10 minutes later and four minutes later police were on the scene. The primary officers on the scene called for backup, but tactical groups didn’t arrive until about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Division of Public Safety, stated Thursday.

Texas investigators instructed NBC News victims of the taking pictures have been found in four classrooms.

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

Mother and father and family members who had been gathered outside Robb Elementary throughout the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their children.

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

“The police were doing nothing,” she mentioned to the paper. “They have been simply standing exterior the fence. They weren’t moving into there or operating anywhere.” 

She stated at first she waited patiently then when she grew to become extra fervent together with her pleas, U.S. marshals allegedly arrested her for intervening in an active investigation. 

Marshals instructed NBC Information in a press release that deputy marshals “by no means arrested or positioned anyone 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 across the school."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.