4th grade survivor of Texas college shooting describes gunman’s phrases before opening fire

Survivors of the Texas elementary school shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie final phrases of "Good evening" and "You are all gonna die" before opening fire, and the way some played useless to be spared within the spray of bullets.

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

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

Miah advised her story by way of a CNN producer. She didn't wish to converse on camera and declined to speak to any males following her expertise with the college capturing and only felt snug speaking to women, the broadcaster said. NBC News could not instantly verify the account.

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

After firing pictures in her classroom, the shooter went into the adjoining classroom and opened fire, Miah said. She said she heard “sad music” taking part in, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

Miah mentioned that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a pal’s blood on herself to look lifeless. She additionally said she and a pal grabbed their teacher’s phone and referred to as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send assist as a result of we’re in hassle.” 

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

A Robb Elementary teacher, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert workers of a lockdown, went off after pictures have been fired and children 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 varsity taking pictures unfolded.

“It was a normal day until my instructor mentioned we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was capturing 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 started to shoot. 

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

He defined that he survived by taking part in lifeless after he got hit in the leg with shrapnel that hit a chair between him and the shooter.

“I think he was aiming at me,” Samuel mentioned. “I performed useless so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

When police finally entered the room and shot the gunman, the youngsters had been evacuated. Within the rushed exit, Samuel saw the bodies of his instructor and other pupils.

“There was blood on the ground,” he said. “And there were children ... filled 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 convention Thursday, Texas officers walked back previously launched info, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a college police officer and entered the school constructing unobstructed.

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

Officials shared a brand new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a vehicle near the school and shot at two folks outdoors a funeral home across the road, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers said the primary 911 call came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the school 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police had been on the scene. The primary officers on the scene called for backup, however tactical teams didn’t arrive until about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Division of Public Safety, said Thursday.

Texas investigators informed NBC News victims of the capturing have been present in 4 lecture rooms.

Robb Elementary serves second through fourth grade students within the small city of Uvalde, which is about 75 miles from the Mexico borders and residential to a big Latino community.

Parents and family members who were gathered outdoors Robb Elementary through the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their children.

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

“The police were doing nothing,” she stated to the paper. “They had been simply standing exterior the fence. They weren’t getting in there or operating anywhere.” 

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

Marshals instructed NBC Information in a statement that deputy marshals “never 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 group that was gathering around the college."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.