residents of uvalde, texas, are holding vigils for the 19 children and two teachers gunned down inside robb elementary school by an 18-year-old high school dropout. and people are leaving flowers and balloons at a makeshift memorial outside the school in the largely latino community not far from the border with mexico. and we are learning the names of some of the victims, mostly 9 and 10-year-old children. the justice of the peace in uvalde says some of the bodies are being released to funeral homes as families make their arrangements. more now on the investigation from cnn s jason carol. reporter: 11:21 a.m., the time stamp from a text message the gunman sent saying he s just shot his grandmother. the gunman was 18 years old and reportedly a high school dropout. reportedly there has been no criminal history identified yet. there was no known mental health history of the gunman. reporter: soon after that text message to a girl ramos met online, another one saying he w
in mourning. vigils are under way and families are making funeral arrangements. a makeshift memorial with flowers and balloons is growing outside robb elementary school. u.s. president joe biden will travel to texas soon to visit the families of the victims. we must ask when in god s name will we do what needs to be done to if not completely stop, fundamentally change the amount of carnage that goes on in this country? to state the obvious like a lot of other people here i m sick and tired. i m just sick and tired of what s going on and continues to go on. and former friend says the gunman, salvador ramos, had a history of fighting as seen here in a video obtained by cnn. investigators say he was inside the school for 40 minutes to an hour barricaded inside two adjoining classrooms before he was shot and killed by a border patrol agent. more now on the investigation from cnn s ed lavandera. i m going to shoot an elementary school. reporter: that was one of the chill
15,000 people and so many of the people we talked to have connections to the victims. tess maria mata was 10 years old, she was saving every dollar hoping to go to disney world. nevaeh bravo also 10 has been remembered as a young girl who put a smile on everyone s face. these are the stories that you will hear this morning. a fourth grade teacher who sacrificed herself protecting the children, a grieving father who found out his daughter died trying to save her classmates. we have learned that by tonight all of the victims their bodies will be released to funeral homes for arrangements. and some new reporting this morning about the excruciating moments outside of the school during the shooting. one parent telling the washington post, quote, there were five or six of us fathers hearing the gunshots and police officers were telling us to move back. we didn t care about us, we wanted to storm the building. we were saying let s go because that is how worried we were and we wa
used in the shooting from a federally authorized dealer on his 18th birthday. this photo of two ar style rifles was posted on an instagram account tied to the gunman. just three days before tuesday s shooting. authorities are still trying to identify the victims, parents waited late into the night at a civic center on tuesday hoping to be reunited with their children. cnn is in texas with more. reporter: late into the night, many family members were at a civic center in uvalde, texas. learning the grim news that their children didn t survive the shooting at rob elementary school in uvalde, texas, earlier on tuesday. a families were told to go to the civic ner where they could be reunited with their children. but as the hours have dragged on, many of the people left at the civic center are the parents and families of the at least 19 children that were murdered. senselessly on tuesday. we were told that authorities are using dna swabs of family members and parents to help ide
devices in and out of the home. i mean, can i have a bite? only from xfinity. nah. unbeatable internet. made to do anything so you can do anything. good morning and welcome to your new day. we re expecting a new report out of uvalde, texas, today detailing the failed police response to a gunman storming an elementary school killing nearly two dozen people. what we re anticipating from that report and who may be held accountable. president biden is back home from the middle east amid criticism of the trip, and he s also facing some head winds on his domestic agenda.