i had to protect my children. pete: a local hospital says it has discharged or transferred all those injured in the shooting. continuing search for a motive. and governor greg act praising law enforcement s, quote, amazing courage without which he says the death toll would have been higher. abbott also revealing the gunman wrote a series of messages online before his killing spree. one saying, quote: i m going to shoot my grandmother. another saying, quote: i have shot my grandmother and i m going to shoot up an elementary school. ainsley: we are also learning the heroic cbp special agent killed the gunman barely made it out with his life. the picture of the hat he was wearing shows it was grazed by a bullet. authorities say he was able to walk away safely. let s bring in lawrence jones, is he live on the ground in uvalde, texas. lawrence? good morning, family. i attended that vigil last night. i have got to tell you whenever you see grown men cry because their loved on
this same incident. but bring us right there to uvalde, texas and tell me how this is resonating right now. because maybe some people are happy about it but beto o rourke who is the democratic nomination to run for governor decides to have two people reportedly hold his seat and when the press conference starts, he slides, in not many people see him. and then does this. excuse me. excuse me. [inaudible] sit down. you are out of line and an embarrassment. sit down and don t play this stunt. [shouting. you are doing nothing. your office is doing nothing. this is totally predictable. sir, you are out of line. sir, you are out of line. sir, you are out of line. please leave this auditorium. exit. i can t believe you are a sick son of a [bleep] come to a deal like this to make a political issue.
parking lot. and then from there. the teams went in and that s what i can tell you. brian: lawrence, go ahead, you have a question? lawrence: sheriff, thanks, brian. why is it important when you guys are in an active shooter situation to establish a perimeter? there is a lot of concern about the parents that wanted to get into see their children. potentially rescue their children. why did you guys have to create a perimeter? well, for several reasons. you don t want parents to cause more mayhem that there already is. this is in a residential area there are people all over the place. as a parent, i would want to get my child out of the harm s way as soon as possible at any cost. so, yes, that s the reason we create a perimeter. and then to establish what is going on and what needs to be done. brian: in uvalde you guys decide to put an armed officer
his politics, it was so shady, it was so sad, and i think a lot of the families that are grieving just didn t think much of him after that. it is not about him having a political perspective. he is free to have that. he is free to have a march, a rally, a press conference. it was a time and a place and that was not the time nor the place, guys. pete: lawrence, you mentioned that mayor uvalde done mcglaughlin he was on sean hannity s show last night talking about beto o rourke s behavior. listen. was not the time or place to have that discussion. if he wants to have that discussion, that s fine. but today at that conference was not the time or place to do that. our hearts are broken here in uvalde. my heart is broken for these families that lost these children that won t come back. but that s the problem. er time we have one of these, it s a political deal. what happened to the grown men that we elected to represent us in congress that can t sit down at a table and come to an conclu
children s faces, the victim s faces. and it reads the children lost, faces of fourth graders murdered in one classroom. they are saying now that this all did happen, all the injuries and all of the deaths happened in this one classroom. brian: let s bring in lawrence jones live on the ground in texas. uvalde, he knows this area quite well. and of course know it even better over the last 48 hours. lawrence, what do you think is going to be the focus today as people get to understand it s not just they are not just numbers. these kids were people and these families will never be the same? lawrence: good morning, family. i think the focus today is going to be on the burials. we are going to start getting more information, the bodies are going to be release dollars to released to the familiesin manyt to be planned. i think questions are going to be continued as from the family members and community members about what we could have done to prevent this, they are going it