4th grade survivor of Texas college taking pictures describes gunman’s words before opening hearth

Survivors of the Texas elementary college shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie remaining words of "Good evening" and "You're all gonna die" earlier than opening fire, and how some played dead to be spared in the spray of bullets.

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

She mentioned the gunman looked at one in all her lecturers in the eye and stated, “Good night time” before capturing her.

Miah advised her story via a CNN producer. She didn't wish to communicate on digital camera and declined to speak to any males following her expertise with the college shooting and solely felt snug chatting with girls, the broadcaster mentioned. NBC News couldn't 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 fire, Miah mentioned. She said she heard “sad music” taking part in, believing the gunman put it on. 

When requested what the music was, she stated it gave the impression of, “I would like people to die music.”

Miah stated that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a pal’s blood on herself to look dead. She additionally stated she and a pal grabbed their trainer’s cellphone and known as 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please send help because we’re in hassle.” 

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

A Robb Elementary teacher, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, informed NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert staff of a lockdown, went off after shots had been fired and kids began to cover beneath their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a standard day till my teacher stated we’re on severe lockdown” and “then there was taking pictures in the home windows,” he stated in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Friday.

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

“He shot the instructor after which he shot the youngsters,” Samuel stated. 

He defined that he survived by playing lifeless after he bought hit in the leg with shrapnel that hit a chair between him and the shooter.

“I think 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 youngsters have been evacuated. Within the rushed exit, Samuel noticed the our bodies of his teacher and other pupils.

“There was blood on the ground,” he said. “And there have been children ... stuffed with blood.” 

The investigation into the capturing is ongoing, and many 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 information conference Thursday, Texas officials walked again beforehand launched info, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a college police officer and entered the college building unobstructed.

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

Officials shared a brand new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a car close to the school and shot at two people exterior a funeral house across the road, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officials said the primary 911 name came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the varsity 10 minutes later and four minutes later police were on the scene. The first officers on the scene known 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, said Thursday.

Texas investigators informed NBC Information victims of the shooting were found in 4 classrooms.

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

Dad and mom and loved ones who have been gathered outside Robb Elementary throughout the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and defend their children.

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

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

She said 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 active investigation. 

Marshals told NBC News in a press release that deputy marshals “by no means arrested or positioned anybody in handcuffs while 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.