that s where the fbi in the bureau are now investigating this shooting, along with local police. lieutenant chris oliver s of the texas department of safety described the next steps of the investigation to my colleague, morgan chesky. our texas changers are the lead investigators right now. they re working with fbi, atf. they want to conduct a thorough investigation, go through every single piece of evidence, and try to determine exactly what happened. of course, we want to be aware, we want to know what took place, which rugged this gunman to cause this horrific tragedy here in the small community. now, we expect to learn more in the coming days, as these agencies investigate this, but still, a lot of unanswered questions. joining me now former member of president obama s task force. mr. alexander, thank you for joining us this evening.
nbc news s morgan chesky spoke with the public safety official, who explained how the shooting began. it was a domestic disturbance between the suspect and his grandmother, where he shot the grandmother. the grandmother is in critical condition, she is alive. at that point, local law enforcement received a call of a crashed vehicle, and an armed gunman nearby, close proximity to a school. that at that point, he made an entrance to the school and completely disregarded human life. an evil person, started shooting kids, anybody that was in his way, teachers. he had no regard for human life. just walking to the school, opening fire? we knew he was armed with a long rifle. the shooter was also wearing some kind of body armor, went to local law enforcement officers arrived into the school. they engage the shooter but
they have domestic news disputes in other countries. they have people who are lost, but these kinds of mass shootings never happen, with the kind of frequency that they happen in america. why? why are we willing to live with this carnage? why do we keep letting this happen? where in god s name is our backbone? to have the courage to stand up to the lobbyists. president joe biden, speaking tonight from the white house. here s what we know at this hour, the shooting took place last at robb elementary school in uvalde, texas. 80 miles west of san antonio. as i mentioned, 19 children, two teachers are confirmed dead, as of this hour, as well as a shooter. several other people, including children, were injured. some of them remain hospitalized. the shooter has been identified as an 18 year old man from uvalde. officials say he acted alone.
don t die thank you for joining us this hour. i m a myth muddiness. 1 am on the east coast, midnight in uvalde, texas, where a mass shooting at an elementary school has left 19 children and two teachers dead, as well as a shooter. several more people are injured. that makes it the deadliest school shootings since the attack on sandy hook elementary school in connecticut, a decade ago, were 20 we are the only nation in the world that has so many school shootings, that we have to rank them by body count over years and decades. let that sink in. like today shooting, the sandy hook massacre in 2012 happened at a elementary school, and in the aftermath, there was such collective national horror what had happened, that it really