was holed up frantically called 911. top police officials now admit it was a mistake to not engage the shooter earlier. have a listen. why was this decision made not to go in and rescue these children? you know the on scene commander considered a barricaded subject and that there was time and there were no children at risk. of course it was not the right decision. it was the wrong decision. parents of the victims obviously outraged at these missteps with one father telling cnn he wonders if his daughter and others might have survived if authorities had actually acted more quickly. and we now know the names and the faces of all 21 lives cut short with funerals set to begin next week. the texas governor says police have a lot to answer for. cnn s ed lavandera picks up the story from here. i was misled. i am livid about what happened. reporter: explosive reaction from the texas governor to new information about law enforcement s response on the day of the uvalde shooti
classroom and opening fire. the suspect armed with an ar-15-style rifle, ultimately killed by police. and tonight, investigators say the suspect turned 18 just nine dys ago. and that he bought his ar-15-style rifle the next day. then another one just a few days later. and nine days after his birthday, he was here at this school. we are now learning more about the children tonight and their two teachers. some of the children getting end of the year awards the morning of the shooting. some of their parents, their loved ones were at the school not knowing it would be the last time they saw their children. and tonight here, my interview with a young father, the video he showed me of his daughter fishing with him. and what he s vowing to do tonight in honor of his daughter. also tonight, we have now learned how long it took to take down the gunman after his first encounter with police here in uvalde. and the officers inside the school, border patrol, sheriffs, police. now we hav
years since columbine. plus a debate on gun legislation in the age of partisan gridlock. and, anguish in america: we speak with angel garza, after the loss of his ten-year- old daughter, amerie. i just want my baby back. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. dokoupil: good evening to our viewers in the west on what is really anything but a good evening. and thank you for joining us. i m tony dokoupil, in for norah, who is recovering from covid. and tonight, we are here in uvalde, texas, a community shattered by one of the deadliest school shootings in american history. 21 victims, 19 of them innocent children. they ranged in age from ten, down to as young as eight. one victim described by family as the sweetest little boy i ve ever known, so full of life. others loved baseball, they loved swimming, loved dancing to tiktok videos in other words, these are your everyday american kids: extraordinarily loved,
friends. i know everybody has been hearing from loved ones. just shock. i got a note this morning from a friend in mississippi. his pastor wrote the congregation yesterday and said, as i write these words, the sun is rising on may 25th, 2022. another day of mourning in america after another mass shooting at another elementary school. as we pray yet again for those whose lives have been torn us under by a troubled soul wielding a deadly weapon, it seems important and necessary to me to say as a christian pastor that we try to find reasonable ways to reduce gun violence, and that is not political. it is moral. the church needs to have a moral compass which can tell the difference between that which is politically partisan and that which is moral. otherwise, our fear of being political may, at times, make us fall silent concerning matters which we should not be silent. as martin luther king jr. once widely said, the day we fall silent about the things that matter is the day our
gun violence epidemic: the staggering numbers of deaths and school shootings in the years since columbine. plus a debate on gun legislation in the age of partisan gridlock. and anguish in america: we speak with angel garcia, after the loss of his 10-year-old daughter, amerie. i just want my baby back. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell reporting tonight from uvalde, texas. dokoupil: good evening on what is really anything but a good evening. and thank you for joining us. i m tony dokoupil, in for norah who is recovering from covid, and tonight we are here in uvalde, texas, a community shattered by one of the deadliest school shootings in american history. 21 victims, 19 of them innocent children. they ranged in age from 10 down to as young as eight. one victim described by family as the sweetest little boy i ve ever known, so full of life. others loved baseballs, they loved swimming, loved dancing to tiktok videos in other words, these are your eve eve