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

Survivors of the Texas elementary college capturing are recounting the gunman's eerie final words of "Good evening" and "You are all gonna die" before opening hearth, and how some performed lifeless to be spared in the spray of bullets.

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

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

Miah instructed her story through a CNN producer. She didn't wish to converse on digicam and declined to speak to any men following her experience with the varsity capturing and only felt comfy talking to girls, the broadcaster said. NBC Information could not instantly verify the account.

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

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

When asked what the music was, she said it appeared like, “I want individuals to die music.”

Miah mentioned that when the gunman went into the other room she smeared a friend’s blood on herself to look lifeless. She also mentioned she and a buddy grabbed their teacher’s telephone and called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Please ship assist because we’re in trouble.” 

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

A Robb Elementary teacher, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, instructed NBC Information that a Raptor alert, a program designed to alert workers of a lockdown, went off after shots have been fired and kids began to hide underneath their desks within the class. 

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

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

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

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

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

“I think he was aiming at me,” Samuel stated. “I played dead so he wouldn’t shoot me.”

When police finally entered the room and shot the gunman, the youngsters had been evacuated. In the rushed exit, Samuel saw the our bodies of his trainer and different pupils.

“There was blood on the bottom,” he said. “And there were youngsters ... full of blood.” 

The investigation into the shooting 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 at the scene.

In a news conference Thursday, Texas officers walked again beforehand released data, saying the gunman wasn’t confronted by a school police officer and entered the school building unobstructed.

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

Officers shared a brand new timeline revealing that at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday the gunman crashed a automobile near the college and shot at two individuals exterior a funeral house across the road, then climbed over a fence to Robb Elementary.

Officers said the primary 911 call got here in at 11:30 a.m., the gunman entered the varsity 10 minutes later and four minutes later police were on the scene. The primary officers on the scene referred to as for backup, however tactical groups didn’t arrive till about an hour later, Victor Escalon, the South Texas regional director for the state Department of Public Security, stated Thursday.

Texas investigators told NBC News victims of the taking pictures have been found in 4 lecture rooms.

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

Parents and family members who had been gathered outside Robb Elementary during the capturing begged and shouted at police to enter and shield their kids.

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

“The police had been doing nothing,” she stated to the paper. “They had been just standing exterior the fence. They weren’t entering into there or working anyplace.” 

She mentioned 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 informed NBC Information in a press release that deputy marshals “never arrested or positioned anybody in handcuffs whereas securing the crime scene perimeter.”

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

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

Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst contributed.