4th grade survivor of Texas college taking pictures describes gunman’s phrases earlier than opening fireplace

Survivors of the Texas elementary school taking pictures are recounting the gunman's eerie closing phrases of "Good evening" and "You're all gonna die" before opening fire, and the way some performed dead 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 mentioned the gunman checked out certainly one of her academics in the eye and said, “Good night” earlier than taking pictures her.

Miah advised her story by means of a CNN producer. She did not wish to speak on digicam and declined to speak to any males following her experience with the college shooting and solely felt snug chatting with women, the broadcaster stated. NBC Information couldn't instantly verify 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 stated she heard “unhappy music” enjoying, believing the gunman put it on. 

When asked what the music was, she said it seemed like, “I want people to die music.”

Miah mentioned that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a buddy’s blood on herself to look dead. She also mentioned she and a friend grabbed their teacher’s phone and known as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send assist because we’re in hassle.” 

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

A Robb Elementary trainer, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, advised 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 hide below their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a normal day until my trainer said we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was taking pictures in the 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 began to shoot. 

“He shot the teacher after which he shot the youngsters,” Samuel mentioned. 

He defined that he survived by playing useless after he obtained hit within the leg with shrapnel that hit a chair between him and the shooter.

“I feel he was aiming at me,” Samuel said. “I performed lifeless so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

When police lastly entered the room and shot the gunman, the children were evacuated. In the rushed exit, Samuel noticed the bodies of his trainer and other pupils.

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

The investigation into the shooting is ongoing, and plenty of questions remain 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 officials walked again beforehand released info, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a school police officer and entered the college constructing unobstructed.

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

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

Officials stated the primary 911 name came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the college 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police had been on the scene. The first officers on the scene known as for backup, but tactical groups didn’t arrive until 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 were present in 4 classrooms.

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 big Latino group.

Parents and family members who had been gathered exterior Robb Elementary through the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their children.

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

“The police have been doing nothing,” she said to the paper. “They were just standing outside the fence. They weren’t getting into there or operating anyplace.” 

She said at first she waited patiently then when she became extra fervent with her pleas, U.S. marshals allegedly arrested her for intervening in an lively investigation. 

Marshals told NBC Information in a statement that deputy marshals “never 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 group that was gathering around the school."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.