4th grade survivor of Texas school taking pictures describes gunman’s phrases before opening fire

Survivors of the Texas elementary faculty shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie last phrases of "Good evening" and "You are all gonna die" earlier than opening fireplace, and the way some played lifeless to be spared in the spray of bullets.

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

She said the gunman checked out one in every of her academics within the eye and mentioned, “Good evening” before shooting her.

Miah advised her story by way of a CNN producer. She did not wish to converse on digital camera and declined to speak to any men following her expertise with the college shooting and solely felt comfortable chatting with girls, the broadcaster stated. NBC News could not immediately verify 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 hearth, Miah stated. She said she heard “unhappy music” taking part in, 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 other room she smeared a pal’s blood on herself to look useless. She additionally stated she and a pal grabbed their instructor’s telephone and known as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship help because we’re in hassle.” 

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

A Robb Elementary trainer, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, instructed NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert employees of a lockdown, went off after shots had been fired and children started to hide underneath their desks within the class. 

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

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

He stated 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 youngsters,” Samuel stated. 

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

“I believe he was aiming at me,” Samuel stated. “I performed useless 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 noticed the our bodies of his trainer and other pupils.

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

The investigation into the taking pictures is ongoing, and many questions remain 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 officers walked again previously launched data, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a school police officer and entered the varsity constructing unobstructed.

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

Officials shared a brand new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a car near the varsity and shot at two individuals exterior a funeral house across the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officials stated the first 911 name came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the school 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police have been on the scene. The first officers on the scene known as for backup, however tactical teams 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 instructed NBC News victims of the capturing were found in 4 classrooms.

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 home to a big Latino group.

Parents and family members who have been gathered outdoors Robb Elementary in the course of the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their kids.

Angeli Rose Gomez instructed The Wall Avenue Journal she was handcuffed by U.S. marshals exterior the school for repeatedly demanding police enter the varsity. 

“The police have been doing nothing,” she stated to the paper. “They were simply standing outdoors the fence. They weren’t going in there or running anyplace.” 

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

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

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

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.