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

Survivors of the Texas elementary college taking pictures are recounting the gunman's eerie remaining words of "Good evening" and "You are all gonna die" earlier than opening hearth, and how some performed lifeless to be spared within the spray of bullets.

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

She stated the gunman checked out certainly one of her teachers in the eye and mentioned, “Good evening” before taking pictures her.

Miah told her story via a CNN producer. She didn't need to communicate on digicam and declined to speak to any men following her expertise with the college shooting and solely felt snug speaking to women, the broadcaster mentioned. NBC News couldn't instantly verify 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 mentioned. She mentioned 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 want individuals to die music.”

Miah said that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a friend’s blood on herself to look useless. She also stated she and a pal grabbed their trainer’s telephone and referred to as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send help because we’re in trouble.” 

In the Tuesday horror, 19 children and two teachers had been killed, and another 17 had been wounded.

A Robb Elementary teacher, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, informed NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert staff of a lockdown, went off after photographs had been fired and children started to cover under their desks in the class. 

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

“It was a traditional day until my trainer said we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was shooting within the home windows,” he mentioned 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 trainer and then he shot the kids,” Samuel said. 

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

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

When police finally entered the room and shot the gunman, the youngsters have been evacuated. In the rushed exit, Samuel saw the our bodies of his trainer and other pupils.

“There was blood on the bottom,” 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 lengthy to take out the gunman.

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

In a news convention Thursday, Texas officers walked again previously released data, 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 primary 911 name to cease the massacre.

Officials shared a new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a vehicle close to the school and shot at two individuals outdoors a funeral dwelling throughout the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers mentioned the primary 911 call came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the college 10 minutes later and four minutes later police had been on the scene. The primary officers on the scene referred to as for backup, however tactical teams didn’t arrive till about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Department of Public Security, said Thursday.

Texas investigators informed NBC News victims of the taking pictures were present in 4 school rooms.

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 large Latino community.

Parents and loved ones who had been gathered outdoors Robb Elementary in the course of the taking pictures begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their kids.

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

“The police have been doing nothing,” she stated to the paper. “They have been just standing outdoors the fence. They weren’t going in there or operating wherever.” 

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 advised NBC News in an announcement that deputy marshals “never arrested or placed anybody 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 faculty."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.