4th grade survivor of Texas school taking pictures describes gunman’s words earlier than opening hearth

Survivors of the Texas elementary school capturing are recounting the gunman's eerie last words of "Good evening" and "You are all gonna die" earlier than opening fireplace, and the way some played useless to be spared in 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 mentioned the gunman checked out one of her lecturers within the eye and mentioned, “Good night time” earlier than taking pictures her.

Miah informed her story via a CNN producer. She didn't want to communicate on digicam and declined to talk to any males following her experience with the college taking pictures and solely felt comfortable speaking to girls, the broadcaster stated. NBC Information couldn't instantly confirm 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 mentioned. She said she heard “sad music” enjoying, believing the gunman put it on. 

When requested what the music was, she said it appeared like, “I want people to die music.”

Miah mentioned that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a buddy’s blood on herself to look dead. She also said she and a buddy grabbed their teacher’s telephone and referred to as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship assist as a result of we’re in hassle.” 

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

A Robb Elementary teacher, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, informed NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert employees of a lockdown, went off after shots had been fired and kids started to cover beneath their desks in the class. 

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

“It was a normal day until my teacher said we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was taking pictures in the 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 began to shoot. 

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

He explained that he survived by enjoying dead after he acquired hit within the leg with shrapnel that hit a chair between him and the shooter.

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

When police lastly entered the room and shot the gunman, the youngsters were evacuated. Within the rushed exit, Samuel saw the bodies of his trainer and different pupils.

“There was blood on the bottom,” he mentioned. “And there were kids ... full of blood.” 

The investigation into the shooting is ongoing, and plenty of questions remain as to why it took police so lengthy to take out the gunman.

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

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

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

Officers shared a brand new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a automobile close to the varsity and shot at two folks outside a funeral home throughout the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officials said the first 911 call got here in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the varsity 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police were on the scene. The first 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 Security, stated Thursday.

Texas investigators advised NBC News victims of the shooting were present in four lecture rooms.

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 residential to a big Latino community.

Parents and family members who had been gathered exterior Robb Elementary in the course of the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their youngsters.

Angeli Rose Gomez advised The Wall Street Journal she was handcuffed by U.S. marshals outside the school for repeatedly demanding police enter the school. 

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

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

Marshals told NBC News in an announcement that deputy marshals “by no means arrested or placed anybody in handcuffs while securing the crime scene perimeter.”

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

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.