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

Survivors of the Texas elementary college capturing are recounting the gunman's eerie last phrases of "Good evening" and "You are all gonna die" before opening fire, and how some performed 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 said the gunman checked out one in all her lecturers within the eye and stated, “Good evening” before shooting her.

Miah instructed her story by way of a CNN producer. She did not need to speak on digicam and declined to speak to any males following her expertise with the school shooting and only felt comfortable chatting with ladies, the broadcaster said. NBC Information couldn't instantly 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 hearth, Miah mentioned. She mentioned she heard “unhappy music” enjoying, believing the gunman put it on. 

When requested what the music was, she mentioned it appeared like, “I need individuals to die music.”

Miah stated that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a pal’s blood on herself to look useless. She also mentioned she and a pal grabbed their teacher’s telephone and known as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send assist as a result of we’re in hassle.” 

In the Tuesday horror, 19 youngsters and two academics have been killed, and another 17 were wounded.

A Robb Elementary teacher, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, informed NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert staff of a lockdown, went off after pictures have been fired and children started to hide below their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a standard day till my instructor mentioned we’re on extreme lockdown” and “then there was capturing in the home windows,” he mentioned 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,” after which started to shoot. 

“He shot the teacher and then he shot the youngsters,” Samuel stated. 

He explained that he survived by enjoying 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 stated. “I performed useless so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

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

“There was blood on the ground,” he mentioned. “And there were kids ... filled with blood.” 

The investigation into the shooting is ongoing, and lots of 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 news convention Thursday, Texas officers walked back beforehand launched info, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a school police officer and entered the school constructing unobstructed.

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

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

Officials mentioned the primary 911 name got here in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the college 10 minutes later and four minutes later police were on the scene. The first officers on the scene called for backup, however tactical teams didn’t arrive until about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Department of Public Security, stated Thursday.

Texas investigators instructed NBC Information victims of the taking pictures were present in four school rooms.

Robb Elementary serves second by way of fourth grade students in the small town of Uvalde, which is about 75 miles from the Mexico borders and residential to a big Latino community.

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

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

“The police were doing nothing,” she mentioned to the paper. “They have been just standing exterior the fence. They weren’t getting in there or working anywhere.” 

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

Marshals told NBC News in a press release that deputy marshals “never arrested or placed 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 across the school."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.