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

Survivors of the Texas elementary school shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie final words of "Good evening" and "You're all gonna die" earlier than opening hearth, and the way some played useless to be spared within 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 stated the gunman looked at one among her academics in the eye and said, “Good night” before capturing her.

Miah told her story by way of a CNN producer. She did not wish to converse on digicam and declined to talk to any men following her expertise with the college taking pictures and solely felt comfortable speaking to women, the broadcaster mentioned. NBC Information couldn't immediately 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 fireplace, Miah stated. She mentioned she heard “sad music” taking part in, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

Miah said that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a buddy’s blood on herself to look useless. She additionally said she and a good friend grabbed their teacher’s telephone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship help because we’re in hassle.” 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When police lastly entered the room and shot the gunman, the children had been evacuated. In the rushed exit, Samuel saw the our bodies of his trainer and different pupils.

“There was blood on the ground,” he stated. “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 news convention Thursday, Texas officers walked again beforehand released data, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a faculty police officer and entered the college building unobstructed.

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

Officers shared a brand new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a car close to the college and shot at two people exterior 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 have 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 Safety, said Thursday.

Texas investigators told NBC Information victims of the capturing had been present in four school rooms.

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

Mother and father and family members who had been gathered exterior Robb Elementary through the taking pictures begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their youngsters.

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

“The police had been doing nothing,” she stated to the paper. “They had been simply standing exterior the fence. They weren’t stepping into there or running wherever.” 

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

Marshals told NBC Information in an announcement that deputy marshals “never arrested or positioned anyone 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 around the faculty."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.