This is the cbs evening news. Axelrod good evening. Im jim axelrod. An unbearable sixday stretch of funerals for the victims of the newtown shooting wrapped up today with the last three. Mourners at the funeral of josephine gay wore purple. Her favorite color. A horsedrawn coach carried the casket of sixyearold ana marquezgreene, remembered as a girl who never walked from room to room. She danced. Sixyearold Emilie Parker was buried in utah, remembered for the markers and paper emilie always had with her because as she would say, i have so many ideas of things to draw, its hard to remember them all. Newtowns police chief is talking publicly about the shooting for the first time. The chief and his captain sat down with Elaine Quijano this morning who joins us now. Good evening elaine. Reporter good evening to you, jim. Well, police chief Michael Kehoe and captain joe rios arrived at sandy hook elementary within minutes of the call. We needed to break into the school to get in. Because t
Sandy hook elementary within minutes of the call. We needed to break into the school to get in because the back doors are secured. Reporter how did you get it open . Broke out the window. Reporter it was quiet, and the halls were empty. Chief kehoe searched sandy hook elementary room by room. With the rooms locked, that means the teachers had done their job, locked their doors and hid their children from danger. So we went around the building to the front of the building. Reporter tell me about that. There was a very tragic observation on all parts because then you could see the carnage that was present. Reporter when you saw what was in that classroom, what went through your mind . I was devastated, absolutely devastated. I had no words. I felt a little bit of anger towards the person who had done this. Reporter did you think there was anyone there to save . No. Reporter as a first responder, how do you deal with that . Well, you feel a sense of guilt that you werent there quick enoug
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