tuesday, but the gunman was not killed until just after 1 p.m. initially the texas department of public safety said the resource officer at the school fired at the gunman but steve mcgraw, director of the texas dps said he did not. it was a brave, independent school district resource officer that approached him, engaged him. at that time gun fire was not, changed. confronted him. he followed him right in immediately. so if this version of events is accurate, that means an armed school officer responsible for the safety of the children and teachers inside saw a man dressed in tactical gear carrying an assault rifle and did not use force to stop him from entering the school and killing 19 children and two of their teachers. nbc news reached out to texas dps for comment previously. the director said the gunman was engaged, quote, immediately and that two officers were wounded. inside the school a teacher heard gunshot as end of year celebrations were in full swing. speaking
time we met them. we have the guide, the tool kit for them to follow now. when they are able and say progress, we will still be there to talk with them, to them through this. most important thing for them now is they get trauma therapy immediately. not trauma informed, now grief counselling, trauma therapy. we have the ability with another woman that we work with to bring in 25 trauma informed therapists to uvalde for free. they are paying out of their own pockets to do this. hopefully, we ll be able to get to them very, very quickly and provide real trauma therapy to them to get them moving forward again. sandy, i hope that no one else will have to use that tool kit. sandy and lonnie, i m sorry to cut it short. i m are you positiving into the next hour. thank you so much for being with us. that s going to do it for me today. halle jackson picks up our coverage now. here is where we are. we have new details about the time line about the school door being unlocked. even
they can download, print it out, read it, whatever they need. that s where we start with families that are new to our club that nobody wants to belong to. we ve been to 25 this will be the 25th. when we get to uvalde tomorrow, this will be our 25th public mass shooting. our 20th, honey. i m sorry, our 20th. in time it takes for this dust to settle, these people will not know anything about what s going on. it takes, at least, four or five days to get your bearings and try to figure what to do, how to do it. when this happened to us, we had nobody to help us. the first mass shooting that we responded to was sandy hook. when we saw those people, when we walked in, we were like zombies. they didn t remember us the next time we met them or the next