happened. let s listen in. those behind me happened. let s listen in. those behind me and happened. let s listen in. those behind me and i ll happened. let s listen in. those behind me and i ll be happened. let s listen in. those behind me and i ll be talking - happened. let s listen in. those i behind me and i ll be talking about here shortly. to begin with, let me point out the obvious. evil swept across uvalde yesterday. anyone who shoots his grandmother in the face has to have evil in his heart. but it is far more evil for someone to gun down little kids. it is intolerable and it is unacceptable for us to have in the state anyone who would kill little kids in our schools! children are a blessing. god teaches us that. they are filled with laughter, innocence and joy. their love is a gift that parents get to unwrap every single day. parents and uvalde had that gift taken away from them. stolen by a demented person. days before, days before yesterday, when these child
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
of a mass shooting. this one at an elementary school. in about a half an hour, we expect an update from greg abbott on yesterday s shooting at rob elementary school. police say the shooter, armed with an ar-style rifle and wearing the type of vest tactical teams use, entered the school, barricaded himself in a classroom, and opened fire. police say they eventually had to break windows to evacuate other students and staffers. as investigators continue to piece together what transpired, they re learning more about the suspect himself. they have identified him as 18-year-old uvalde resident. no friend or girlfriend that we can identify. it s hard to identify what caused or sent this individual to, you know, complete this heinous act, this evil act. it shows you pure evilness with this individual going into a school, barricading himself inside a classroom, and shooting children and teachers. meanwhile, in washington flags are flying at half-staff outside the white house the d
democratic politician who has had enough and the governor of texas defending his state s gun laws. in washington halle jackson with garrett haake and tom llamas in texas. garrett, we re specifically talking about this warning from the shooter, that he was going to not only shoot his grandmother but he was going to attack an elementary school. a spokesperson clarified these northern the facebook posts, no the public posts. these were private messages that apparently or presumably were only found after the fact. what else are we learning? reporter: yes, that s right. we heard about those private messages from the governor in this press conference just now. he also described in a little more detail how this shooting took place, how it began on the street behind me, where the gunman shot his own grandmother after what appears to be some kind of argument and drove to the school, his truck off in a ditch getting into a classroom and essentially barricading himself inside. he was
Im sure everyone would remember the images. I was a lot skinnier than i am now. But i think mentally, you know, im mentally better than i was, especiallyjust coming out of captivity. Erm, but as most people can probably observe, i still have, a lot of issues mentallyjust dealing with going back out into the big wide world after going through what we did go through. I am wondering how a youth in his late teens turning 20 could become so fixated on fighting in other peoples wars, because thats what happened. Pretty much, erm, and i think the important thing to realise is that my childhood, when i was growing up, i never had any aspirations to go into any sort of conflict or military setting. My sole goal in life was to grow up, become a police officer. That was like my goal, my career ambition. But it wasnt until 2014 when around that time, we saw the gradual unfolding that was going on in iraq and syria. We had, like, isis that was starting to grow bigger and bigger, the atrocities that