4th grade survivor of Texas college shooting describes gunman’s words before opening fire

Survivors of the Texas elementary college shooting are recounting the gunman's eerie ultimate phrases of "Good evening" and "You are all gonna die" earlier than opening hearth, and how some performed lifeless 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 looked at one among her academics within the eye and mentioned, “Good night” earlier than capturing her.

Miah instructed her story via a CNN producer. She did not wish to speak on digital camera and declined to speak to any men following her experience with the school capturing and only felt comfy speaking to ladies, the broadcaster said. NBC Information couldn't immediately confirm 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 stated she heard “unhappy music” playing, believing the gunman put it on. 

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

Miah stated that when the gunman went into the opposite room she smeared a buddy’s blood on herself to look dead. She also said she and a friend grabbed their instructor’s telephone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship help as a result of we’re in bother.” 

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

A Robb Elementary instructor, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, instructed NBC News that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert workers of a lockdown, went off after pictures have been fired and children started to hide underneath their desks within the class. 

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

“It was a standard day until my teacher said we’re on extreme lockdown” and “then there was taking pictures in the windows,” he said 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 began to shoot. 

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

He explained that he survived by taking part in useless after he received hit in the leg with shrapnel that hit a chair between him and the shooter.

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

When police lastly entered the room and shot the gunman, the youngsters had been evacuated. In the rushed exit, Samuel noticed the bodies of his teacher and different pupils.

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

The investigation into the capturing 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 information, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a school police officer and entered the varsity constructing unobstructed.

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

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 folks outdoors a funeral dwelling across the street, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers mentioned the first 911 name came in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the college 10 minutes later and four minutes later police had been on the scene. The first officers on the scene referred to as for backup, but tactical groups didn’t arrive until about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Division of Public Security, stated Thursday.

Texas investigators advised NBC Information victims of the shooting have been found in 4 school rooms.

Robb Elementary serves second by means of fourth grade students within the small town of Uvalde, which is about 75 miles from the Mexico borders and home to a large Latino group.

Mother and father and family members who had been gathered outside Robb Elementary throughout the shooting begged and shouted at police to enter and shield their youngsters.

Angeli Rose Gomez advised The Wall Road Journal she was handcuffed by U.S. marshals exterior the college for repeatedly demanding police enter the varsity. 

“The police had been doing nothing,” she stated to the paper. “They were just standing outside the fence. They weren’t moving into there or operating 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 lively investigation. 

Marshals told NBC Information 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 within the midst of the grief-stricken neighborhood that was gathering around the faculty."

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.