underway on this thursday night. good evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle. tonight there are new questions about what happened inside that texas elementary school, were 19 young children and two teachers were killed on tuesday. nbc news reporting that texas investigators now say that victims of the shooting were found in four separate classrooms. meanwhile, details are emerging about the police response and the specific timeline of the attack. tom jonas has more on that timeline. authorities say the gunman crashed his grandmother s truck at 11:28 am. witnesses reported seeing carrying a long gun and a bag. he fired at two people outside a funeral home while before heading to the elementary school. at 11:30 am the first 9-1-1 call came in. this video shows the gunman, dressed in black long gun in hand, entering the school ten minutes later at 11:40 am. police say that the doors appeared to be locked. as for whether or not anyone tried to stop him from entering, yesterda
thank you. it is time to die. that is what the murderer told children his before they started shooting them in their classrooms. it is time to die. with the official dispensers of information, by governor greg abbott, told us at. they didn t tell us that. there it is going to go with an eyewitness. an unnamed, nine-year-old boy. his parents didn t want him to be identified, but allowed him to be interviewed. the boy hid under a table that was covered with a tablecloth. that is why he s alive. a tablecloth. it had blocked the murderer from seeing this nine year old boy with under the table we. there was a door in the middle, he opened it, and he came in and, he crouch a little bit he said, it s time to die. when he shot, it was very loud, and it hurt my ears. when i saw the bullets on the floor, it was real. it is time to die. we it was real. the boy was hiding under the table with a friend, and he saw his teacher get shot, and killed. he saw another classmate getting
compounded for one family. a husband dies from a heart attack days after his wife, a teacher, was killed in the attack. good morning, welcome to way too early. on this friday may 27th. i m jonathan lemere, thank you for joining us. we begin with the latest from uvalda. some of the key details provided by the texas officials in the first 48 hours of the attack have turned out to be an accurate. here is what has changed. texas officials first said that the attacker exchanged gunfire with a school resource officer before entering the school and then later said that the school resource officer engaged with the attacker, did not exchange gunfire. and yesterday officials changed the story. saying in fact that there was no school resource officer at all and that the killer walked into the school through an unlocked door, on obstructed, and simply began firing. the amount of time that the gunman spent outside before entering the building is also changed. we were initially told that
hold up for you, says cities soul crushed. i think that perfectly describes the feeling here in uvalde this morning. behind me is the elementary the school. overnight, a series of crosses were put out, one for each of the 21 victims, the 19 children and the two teachers that were killed here. this small community of 15,000 people is coming together, united in grief for what happened here. about 1000 people attended a vigil for the victims last night. a solo violinist closed with a rare rendition of amazing grace. the music punctuated by the anguish of those who were there. almost everyone at that vigil, it feels like everyone in this town has some connection to the victims. including ten-year-old tests marie mata, who loved tiktok dance is, and ariana grande a. they just received the honor rolled and received a good citizen award. we are just learning about how the mask or unfolded. there are questions about how the timeline and how long it took for law enforcement to step in
tower like many of the mass murderers who followed his footsteps, charles whitman shot and killed his wife, shot and killed his mother. the mass murderer in sandy hook, in connecticut, shot and killed his mother before going to the elementary school they are to murder 20 kindergarten and first grade students. and six adults working at the school. the latest adults reports indicate that as many as 18 children and three adults were shot and killed today. at robb elementary school in uvalde, texas. the town of 15,000 people, about 60 miles from the mexican border, with some reports indicating that the children were murdered, and were mostly in grades three and four. the mass murder of children in sandy hook changed connecticut senator chris murphy s focus in the senate, where he has become the since leading expert on this uniquely american way of death, being shot to death at school. senator murphy rose on the senate floor today, without a prepared speech, and said this. the