entering the elementary school. and we know more than an hour passed between the first 911 call and when the shooter was killed. police now acknowledge that tragic mistakes were made. the decision was made that this is barricade the subject situation, there was time to retrieve the keys and wait for a tactical team with the equipment to go ahead and breach the door and take on the subject at that point. that was the decision. it was the wrong decision, period. the incident commander has been identified as uvalde school district police chief pedro pete arredondo. he made two brief statements to the press on the day of the shooting and is not spoken since. texas governor greg abbott faced questions about the praise he initially offered the first responders after the shooting and he said he was misled. i was misled. i am livid about what happened. there are people who deserve answers most. and those are the families whose lives have been destroyed. they need answers that a
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,
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
but there f there is any new movement in washington after the uvalde, texas, mass shooting, my movement to cut back the bans of assault weapons and strengthen background checks could join a heartbreaking list of past attempts following horrific school shootings that failed. we must do more to keep guns out of the hands of children. that was bill clinton three days after columbine in april of 1999 when two students killed 12 fellow students and a teacher. it was proposed to close loopholes for background checks at gun shows an it failed in congress. for president after president since bill clinton, there are tragedies, there is a call to action, there are efforts at legislation and that legislation falls short. reporter: the sandy hook elementary school shooting in new tourn, connecticut, in december of 2012 when 20 children were gunned down along with six adults was a moment so horrifying that democrats and republicans said something had
read you your rights this afternoon. you are not entering a plea today. i m going to ask you to sign a second time requesting consideration to court appointed attorney and second time keep your appointments sandra: that was just moments ago galveston county jail you are looking at the suspect dimitrios pagourtzis in that shooting that took place this morning in texas. you could hear his arraignment there. so, is america in the middle of a culture crisis? what is happening in our schools and what can be done to fix it? these questions are top of mind after 10 people walked in the santa fe high school today and did not walk out. there have now been 184 deaths in school shootings since columbine in april of 1999. here now dr. daniel,