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

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

Fourth grade scholar 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 considered one of her academics in the eye and said, “Good night time” before capturing her.

Miah informed her story by way of a CNN producer. She didn't want to communicate on digital camera and declined to speak to any males following her experience with the school capturing and solely felt comfy speaking to ladies, the broadcaster mentioned. NBC Information could not immediately 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 fire, Miah said. She stated she heard “sad music” taking part in, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

Miah stated that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a friend’s blood on herself to look useless. She additionally mentioned she and a buddy grabbed their teacher’s cellphone and referred to as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send help as a result of we’re in bother.” 

Within the Tuesday horror, 19 youngsters and two lecturers have been killed, and another 17 were wounded.

A Robb Elementary trainer, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, informed NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert staff of a lockdown, went off after photographs have been fired and kids started to hide below their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a traditional 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 said that the gunman barged into the classroom, introduced, “You’re all gonna die,” and then began to shoot. 

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

He explained that he survived by taking part in dead after he got hit within 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 finally entered the room and shot the gunman, the children had been evacuated. In the rushed exit, Samuel saw the bodies of his instructor and other pupils.

“There was blood on the ground,” he mentioned. “And there were youngsters ... filled with blood.” 

The investigation into the shooting 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 at the scene.

In a news convention Thursday, Texas officials walked again beforehand launched information, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a school police officer and entered the school constructing unobstructed.

Police now say it took over an hour from the first 911 call to stop the bloodbath.

Officials shared a brand new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a car close to the varsity and shot at two folks outdoors a funeral house across the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officials said the primary 911 call came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the varsity 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police had been on the scene. The primary 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 Department of Public Security, said Thursday.

Texas investigators advised NBC News victims of the capturing have been present in 4 classrooms.

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 home to a large Latino group.

Parents and family members who were gathered outdoors Robb Elementary throughout the taking pictures begged and shouted at police to enter and shield their children.

Angeli Rose Gomez advised 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 said to the paper. “They were simply standing outside the fence. They weren’t entering into there or operating wherever.” 

She stated at first she waited patiently then when she turned extra fervent along 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 positioned anybody in handcuffs while securing the crime scene perimeter.”

“Our deputy marshals maintained order and peace within the midst of the grief-stricken community that was gathering around the college."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.