vigils are underway in uvalde, texas for the 19 children and 2 teachers gunned down inside robb elementary school by an 18-year-old high school drop-out. memorials outside the school from the community not far from the border with mexico. a friend of the gunman says he had a history of fighting as we see here in video obtained by cnn. texas authorities report he had no criminal record, no history of mental illness. more now on the investigation from cnn s ed. i m going to shoot an elementary school. that was one of the chilling text messages the uvalde gunman sent to a 15-year-old girl in germany at 11:21 central time in texas just 15 minutes before the shooting at robb elementary school. evil swept across uvalde yesterday. the 18-year-old gunman drove to the elementary school where he would kill 19 children and the faculty members 2 days before they were heading out for school break. the gunman wrote messages that foreshadowed the carnage he was about to inflict.
time we met them. we have the guide, the tool kit for them to follow now. when they are able and say progress, we will still be there to talk with them, to them through this. most important thing for them now is they get trauma therapy immediately. not trauma informed, now grief counselling, trauma therapy. we have the ability with another woman that we work with to bring in 25 trauma informed therapists to uvalde for free. they are paying out of their own pockets to do this. hopefully, we ll be able to get to them very, very quickly and provide real trauma therapy to them to get them moving forward again. sandy, i hope that no one else will have to use that tool kit. sandy and lonnie, i m sorry to cut it short. i m are you positiving into the next hour. thank you so much for being with us. that s going to do it for me today. halle jackson picks up our coverage now. here is where we are. we have new details about the time line about the school door being unlocked. even
so there wasn t sufficient minnesota power. you know, what happened to the policy of first responders on the scene engage the shooter? yeah. it s a complicated time line for two reasons. one is there is some interaction before he even gets into the classroom. and authorities are being kind of vague about what that interaction is. but they re saying he s engaged by a school security official, but still he makes his way in. then once he s in, he s able to barricade himself. we have learned now that all the kids and the teacher died in the same room. for some period of time without, you know, basically a rush or, you know, are they waiting for support? are they waiting for backup? there is just a lot of different explanations in this time frame. and i don t say this as someone, you know, sitting on the sidelines i m going to judge this. i think it s very important that we get this narrative right and understand what happened only because we live in a society
kit. sandy and lonnie, i m sorry to cut it short. i m are you positiving into the next hour. thank you so much for being with us. that s going to do it for me today. halle jackson picks up our coverage now. here is where we are. we have new details about the time line about the school door being unlocked. even some confusion on that and new clarity on this point that there was no school security official at the door to try to engage the gunman. that s different from what we heard about 24 hours ago. still no answer on why it took an hour, an hour from 11:44 to about 12:45 to get to the shooter. we re watching the white house where we could hear from press secretary since the massacre.