realizing now that children his own age were murdered inside their classroom, inside their school, he s trying to process it all. and he saw my own anxiety this morning and i felt guilty for even causing a little bit of his own. and he actually said to me, don t worry, mommy. i will be home tonight. he said, i make a promise to myself every day that i will make it home at night. now, these should not be the promises any child has to make. not in a nation where our promises to keep them safe have not been kept. i remember when mr. rogers was trying to comfort kids like me by telling them when you see scary things, look for the helpers. look for the helpers. okay, well, as far as we know, the helpers stood in the hallway. the helpers heard shots even after they believed it was a barricade and not an active shooter, and when the helpers aren t being tight hp lipped, they re offering changing narratives but i m still going to look to these helpers. but this time it will be for an
that as well. let me ask you, if you re looking at this, how do you try to unpack and investigate and get to the truth? knowing there s different narratives, there is a distrust happening. walk us through how an investigation looks from here. sure, so i of course share all of your skepticism naturally, and especially in this situation. so what investigators will do is focus on those undisputable facts, things like the timeline in the way that it s established by things like the video capture inside the school, the phone calls to 911 that happened, that definitive places and times. maybe phone records between people who were involved in the incident, the dispatcher calls to the law enforcement folks on the scene. and then they ll add into that the information they get from witnesses, whether those are police officers or leadership folks or in this case, one of