he met with after the mass shooting and the victims of another preventable tragedy, this time in his hometown. watch. uvalde, texas, is where i was born. it s where my mom taught kindergarten less than a mile from robb elementary. uvalde is where i learned to master a disy bb gun. took two years before i graduated to a 410 shotgun. uvalde is where i was taught to revere the power and the capability of the tool that we call a gun. uvalde is where i learned responsible gun ownership. wore green high top converse with a heart she had drawn on the right toe because they represented her love of nature, camilla s got these shoes. can you show these shoes, please? wore these every day, green converse with a heart on the right toe. these are the same green converse on her feet that turned out to be the only clear evidence that could identify her after the shooting. how about that? you know what every one of these parents wanted what they asked for, what every parent separately expr
the killer exchanged gunfire with police wounding two officers before being shot and killed by law enforcement. the 18-year-old used a rifle to carry out the nation s deadliest school attack in a decade. these photos were posted to an instagram account linked to it. one of his social media posts read, quote, kids be scared. a fire fighter on the scene says the gunman was inside that school for about 30 minutes before law enforcement ended the siege. to figure he was in there for so long in that classroom and the officers initially on scene couldn t do anything. well, you got to take into account when you have someone with this intent to just kill anybody, have no regard for human life and also with a rifle, he can kill numerous people in a matter of seconds. so those officers were able to respond at a moment s notice. there could have been further loss of life if they weren t on scene to break those windows and rescue any children and teachers inside that classroom. thi
classroom. parents sharing stories about the wonderful young children they loved and lost. and the heartbreak that will last forever. our correspondents are covering every angle of this story, including cnn teams on the scene in texas. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, investigators are starting to put together the pieces of america s newest shooting massacre. the epidemic of gun violence invading yet another school and claiming 21 more innocent lives, most of them young kids. cnn national correspondent jason carroll begins our coverage at the scene of the attack in texas. jason, state officials revealed new details of how this horrible rampage played out. and wolf, just a day after the shooting, the gravity of what s happened here has begun to sink in even more with this community. the governor here is saying that as far as they can tell so far, the suspect, the shoo
the evidence we have uncovered so far makes no mistake this is an absolute racist hate crime that will be prosecuted as a hate crime. someone who has hate in their heart, soul, and mind and the bravery of the buffalo police officers to engage in individual and to say about their actions and retired fellow colleagues who confronted this individual to save the lives of others may he rest ineace. and with the expressed purpose of taking as many black lives as he possibly could. the buffalo police saved a lot of lives yesterday. we still don t know the motives behind today in california but those buffalo motives are becoming to clear everyone who loves america not only hates what happened yesterday but should want to understand the reasons why in the end the responsibility of the individual the internet did not do it cable news did not do it. and then to do something so evil that does require us to ask questions in society with technology and our political discourse and how d
that this morning. the evidence we have uncovered so far makes no mistake this is an absolute racist hate crime that will be prosecuted as a hate crime. someone who has hate in their heart, soul, and mind and the bravery of the buffalo police officers to engage in individual and to say about their actions and retired fellow colleagues who confronted this individual to save the lives of others may he rest in peace. and with the expressed purpose of taking as many black lives as he possibly could. the buffalo police saved a lot of lives yesterday. we still don t know the motives behind today in california but those buffalo motives are becoming to clear everyone who loves america not only hates what happened yesterday but should want to understand the reasons why in the end the responsibility of the individual the internet did not do it cable news did not do it. and then to do something so evil that does require us to ask questions in society with technology and our politica