4th grade survivor of Texas faculty shooting describes gunman’s phrases earlier than opening fire

Survivors of the Texas elementary faculty shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie final phrases of "Good evening" and "You're all gonna die" before opening hearth, and the way some performed lifeless to be spared in the spray of bullets.

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

She stated the gunman checked out certainly one of her academics within the eye and mentioned, “Good evening” earlier than capturing her.

Miah advised her story via a CNN producer. She didn't wish to speak on digicam and declined to talk to any males following her expertise with the college capturing and only felt comfy talking to women, the broadcaster said. NBC Information could not immediately verify the account.

Miah herself was hit by fragments in the hail of bullets, CNN reported.

After firing pictures in her classroom, the shooter went into the adjoining classroom and opened hearth, Miah stated. She stated she heard “sad music” taking part in, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

Miah stated that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a good friend’s blood on herself to look lifeless. She additionally mentioned she and a pal grabbed their trainer’s telephone and known as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send assist as a result of we’re in trouble.” 

In the Tuesday horror, 19 kids and two lecturers were killed, and one other 17 were wounded.

A Robb Elementary teacher, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, instructed NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert workers of a lockdown, went off after photographs have been fired and youngsters began to hide below their desks in the class. 

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

“It was a standard day till my instructor said 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, introduced, “You’re all gonna die,” after which started to shoot. 

“He shot the instructor and then he shot the children,” Samuel said. 

He defined that he survived by taking part in lifeless after he acquired 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 lifeless 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 noticed the our bodies of his instructor and different pupils.

“There was blood on the bottom,” he mentioned. “And there were kids ... stuffed 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 at the scene.

In a information conference Thursday, Texas officials walked again beforehand launched information, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a faculty police officer and entered the varsity constructing unobstructed.

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

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

Officers stated the first 911 call came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the varsity 10 minutes later and 4 minutes later police had been on the scene. The primary officers on the scene referred to as 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 Safety, mentioned Thursday.

Texas investigators instructed NBC News victims of the shooting had been found in four lecture rooms.

Robb Elementary serves second by way of 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 neighborhood.

Parents and family members who had been gathered outside Robb Elementary in the course of the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and protect their youngsters.

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

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

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

Marshals instructed NBC Information in a press release that deputy marshals “by no means arrested or placed anyone in handcuffs whereas securing the crime scene perimeter.”

“Our deputy marshals maintained order and peace within the midst of the grief-stricken group that was gathering around the school."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.