4th grade survivor of Texas school taking pictures describes gunman’s words before opening fireplace

Survivors of the Texas elementary faculty capturing are recounting the gunman's eerie closing phrases of "Good evening" and "You are all gonna die" before opening hearth, and the way some played dead to be spared in the spray of bullets.

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

She stated the gunman looked at certainly one of her lecturers in the eye and stated, “Good night time” earlier than taking pictures her.

Miah instructed her story via a CNN producer. She didn't need to speak on digital camera and declined to speak to any men following her experience with the college shooting and solely felt snug talking to girls, the broadcaster said. NBC News could not instantly confirm the account.

Miah herself was hit by fragments in 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 said she heard “sad music” taking part in, believing the gunman put it on. 

When requested what the music was, she said it sounded like, “I need people to die music.”

Miah mentioned that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a pal’s blood on herself to look lifeless. She also stated she and a friend grabbed their instructor’s cellphone and known as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship assist because we’re in hassle.” 

In the Tuesday horror, 19 youngsters and two academics were killed, and one other 17 had been wounded.

A Robb Elementary trainer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert staff of a lockdown, went off after shots had been fired and youngsters started to cover below their desks in the class. 

Samuel Salinas, 10, was a pupil in teacher Irma Garcia’s class on Tuesday when the varsity capturing unfolded.

“It was a standard day till my trainer mentioned we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was capturing in the home 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 started to shoot. 

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

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

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

When police finally entered the room and shot the gunman, the children have been evacuated. In the rushed exit, Samuel noticed the bodies of his teacher and other pupils.

“There was blood on the bottom,” he stated. “And there were children ... stuffed with blood.” 

The investigation into the capturing is ongoing, and many questions stay 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 convention Thursday, Texas officers walked back previously released info, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a school police officer and entered the varsity building unobstructed.

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

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

Officers mentioned 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 teams didn’t arrive till about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Division of Public Security, mentioned Thursday.

Texas investigators instructed NBC Information victims of the shooting were found in 4 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 home to a big Latino community.

Parents and loved ones who have been gathered exterior Robb Elementary during the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their kids.

Angeli Rose Gomez told The Wall Street Journal she was handcuffed by U.S. marshals outdoors 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 entering into there or operating wherever.” 

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

Marshals instructed NBC News in a statement that deputy marshals “never arrested or placed anyone in handcuffs while securing the crime scene perimeter.”

“Our deputy marshals maintained order and peace in the midst of the grief-stricken neighborhood that was gathering around the college."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.