to do. yeah. they go down the hall and leave one of the shields behind, which supposedly was what they were waiting on, was all this equipment. but they still weren t making entry. that s right. they just heard additional shots fired. they still are not making entry. remind you, there have been 37 minutes between the last time we heard gunshots to now. the idea if they thought it was a bierarricaded situation or no longer an active shooter that is triggered, right? and it will be another half an hour before they make entry. i just want to talk about one of the victims, because i spoke to one of the mothers of the kids who survived. she told me her son remembers someone hearing a police officer say, hey, are you inside, do you need help? the kid answers back, yeah, we re in here. then the gunman shoots and kills him. that is happening now. it could have been in this moment. we just don t know. it s very hard to get that kind of specific information out of the c
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37 minutes between the last time we heard gunshots to now. so the idea of if they thought it was a barricaded situation, or no longer an active shooter, that has now been retriggered. and it will be another half an hour before they make entry. i just want to talk about the victims, right? because i spoke to one of the mothers of one of the kids who survived. and she told me that her son recollects, remembers someone hearing a police officer say hey, you inside? do you need help? and the kid answers back yeah, we re in here. and then the gunman shoots and kills him. so that is happening. now it could have been in this moment. we just don t know. we don t know. and it s very hard to get that kind of specific information out of the children. but i think law enforcement has some idea, because actually, it was fbi forensic. type of ert. who deals with interviewing kids. to try to elicit specific information. that s what s going on. there are more people being shot. that s
to do. yeah. they go down the hall and leave one of the shields behind, which supposedly was what they were waiting on, was all this equipment. but they still weren t making entry. that s right. they just heard additional shots fired. they still are not making entry. remind you, there have been 37 minutes between the last time we heard gunshots to now. the idea if they thought it was a bierarricaded situation or no longer an active shooter that is triggered, right? and it will be another half an hour before they make entry. i just want to talk about one of the victims, because i spoke to one of the mothers of the kids who survived. she told me her son remembers someone hearing a police officer say, hey, are you inside, do you need help? the kid answers back, yeah, we re in here. then the gunman shoots and kills him.
what s happening there? what am i seeing? is that still a shield there? it is shield. so you heard the shot that appears to have grabbed their attention. you have about half a dozen or so officers go down the hall. and they notably leave one of the shields behind. so the shield is the we had heard again and again and again that one of the reasons for the delay initially was a request of ballistic shields, and they were waiting for those arrive. he is wearing a gas mask there. i don t understand what the purpose of that. i saw a couple of them put gas masks on. they just weren t organized. they don t know what they want do. they go down the hall. and as andy said, they leave one of the shields behind, which supposedly is what they were waiting on is all this equipment. but they still aren t making entry. that s right. and they just heard additional shots fired. they still are not making entry. and mind you, there have been