4th grade survivor of Texas faculty capturing describes gunman’s phrases before opening fireplace

Survivors of the Texas elementary college shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie closing words of "Good evening" and "You are all gonna die" before opening fireplace, and the way some performed dead to be spared within the spray of bullets.

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

She mentioned the gunman looked at considered one of her academics in the eye and said, “Good night” earlier than shooting her.

Miah advised her story via a CNN producer. She did not wish to communicate on camera and declined to speak to any men following her experience with the school capturing and only felt snug speaking to women, the broadcaster mentioned. NBC News could not immediately verify the account.

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

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

When asked what the music was, she stated it sounded like, “I want people 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 also mentioned she and a pal grabbed their instructor’s telephone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send assist as a result of we’re in hassle.” 

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

A Robb Elementary teacher, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, told NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert workers of a lockdown, went off after pictures had been fired and children started to cover beneath their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a traditional day till my instructor mentioned we’re on extreme lockdown” and “then there was capturing within the home windows,” he said in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Friday.

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

“He shot the teacher and then he shot the children,” Samuel mentioned. 

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

“I feel he was aiming at me,” Samuel mentioned. “I performed dead 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 saw the our bodies of his instructor and different pupils.

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

The investigation into the shooting is ongoing, and lots of questions stay as to why it took police so long to take out the gunman.

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

In a information conference Thursday, Texas officials walked again previously launched data, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a college police officer and entered the varsity constructing unobstructed.

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

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 people outside a funeral dwelling across the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers said the primary 911 name 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 primary officers on the scene called for backup, however tactical groups didn’t arrive till about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Division of Public Security, said Thursday.

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

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

Parents and family members who have been gathered outside Robb Elementary in the course of the taking pictures begged and shouted at police to enter and shield their children.

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

“The police were doing nothing,” she stated to the paper. “They had been just standing outdoors the fence. They weren’t getting into there or running anywhere.” 

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 active investigation. 

Marshals instructed NBC News in a press release that deputy marshals “never arrested or placed anyone in handcuffs whereas securing the crime scene perimeter.”

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

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.