4th grade survivor of Texas college shooting describes gunman’s words before opening fireplace

Survivors of the Texas elementary school capturing are recounting the gunman's eerie closing words of "Good evening" and "You're all gonna die" before opening fire, and the way some played dead to be spared within the spray of bullets.

Fourth grade pupil 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 considered one of her lecturers in the eye and said, “Good night” before shooting her.

Miah informed her story by means of a CNN producer. She didn't want to communicate on digital camera and declined to speak to any men following her experience with the college taking pictures and solely felt snug chatting with girls, the broadcaster mentioned. NBC News could not immediately confirm the account.

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

After firing shots in her classroom, the shooter went into the adjoining classroom and opened fire, Miah stated. She said she heard “unhappy music” enjoying, believing the gunman put it on. 

When asked what the music was, she said it gave the impression of, “I want people to die music.”

Miah said that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a good friend’s blood on herself to look lifeless. She also stated she and a good friend grabbed their trainer’s phone and referred to as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship help as a result of we’re in hassle.” 

Within the Tuesday horror, 19 children and two academics have been killed, and another 17 have 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 staff of a lockdown, went off after pictures had been fired and kids began to hide under their desks in the class. 

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

“It was a traditional day until my teacher stated we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was capturing within the windows,” he mentioned in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Friday.

He mentioned that the gunman barged into the classroom, introduced, “You’re all gonna die,” after which began to shoot. 

“He shot the instructor and then he shot the youngsters,” Samuel said. 

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

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

When police lastly entered the room and shot the gunman, the kids were evacuated. In the rushed exit, Samuel noticed the bodies of his teacher and different pupils.

“There was blood on the bottom,” he said. “And there have been youngsters ... filled 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 on the scene.

In a information convention Thursday, Texas officers walked again previously released info, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a school police officer and entered the college building unobstructed.

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

Officers shared a new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a vehicle close to the college and shot at two people exterior a funeral home across the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officials stated 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 have been on the scene. The first officers on the scene referred to as for backup, but tactical groups 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 informed NBC News victims of the capturing have been present in four lecture rooms.

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

Dad and mom and family members who were gathered outside Robb Elementary throughout the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their youngsters.

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

“The police had been doing nothing,” she said to the paper. “They had been simply standing exterior the fence. They weren’t getting into there or working anyplace.” 

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

Marshals instructed NBC Information in a statement that deputy marshals “by no means arrested or positioned anybody in handcuffs whereas securing the crime scene perimeter.”

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

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.