i was an agent in los angeles in the 90s when the infamous hollywood shootout happened. that was a scary moment for law enforcement because lapd was not expecting to encounter people armed with machine guns and really from head to toe in body armor. those sorts of things have been very rare, but unfortunately they have started to pick up recently. the buffalo shooter, for instance, who murdered ten people or is accused of murdering ten people, he was wearing body armor. the aurora theater shooting, he had body armor. san bernardino. so it appears that this is becoming somewhat more common, and that s going to make it even tougher for law enforcement to go in and try to stop these killers when they re terrorizing our schools. so they are literally this
so raises real questions as to whether or not this suspect was even attending classes and what kind of way was he attending school and what kind of supervision that he had before he turned 18 just a short while ago. and then that really kind of leads to the questions of what the state senator from the uvalde area was telling us, that this gunman went on his 18th birthday and bought these assault-style rifles almost as a way of celebrating his 18th birthday. when we had those pictures of that weaponry, which could very well be the weapons that were used in the attack at the school today. we re also learning, ed, about officers and border agents being injured responding to the shooting. what do you know about that? we understand that a number of customs and border protection officers were some of the first agents and officers in law enforcement to respond there to
some kind of obsession with firearms recently. that doesn t exactly explain what happened today and how this incident goes from, again, a shooting at the grandmother s house to a shooting that kills all of these kids and their classrooms there today. that doesn t quite explain what happened today. evan, also the fbi is warning about a rise in roving shooters. explain what this is and how it applies to this attack? just in the last 24 hours, the fbi released this report. 61 active shooter incidents in 2021. that s up more than 50% compared to 2020, don. one phenomenon that the fbi identifies in this report that they issued yesterday is this concept of roving shooters, people who not only carry out shooting in one location, but multiple locations. that s kind of what happened here today, according to police.
the scene at the shooting. this isn t totally out of the norm. remember, uvalde is a town halfway between san antonio basically and the u.s./mexico border. this is an area that is swarming with all different types of law enforcement agencies. so it is not out of the ordinary to be driving through the streets of uvalde and see border patrol agents or federal agents. so when the alert goes out that something like this is happening, it s not uncommon to see state troopers, border patrol agents respond to the scene. we were told one of the border patrol agents was shot in the head, but is going to be okay, that it is not a life-threatening injury. ed, evan, thank you so much. appreciate that. i want to bring in cnn national security analyst anthony barksdale. anthony and juliet, good evening to both of you. anthony, what are the most important things that law enforcement officials are doing tonight to determine why this gunman opened fire in that
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