evacuating students and teachers from other parts of the school. even negotiating with the suspect. but they didn t have enough information on his exact location for an immediate take down. video from the school from outside the school meantime shows parents screaming at police to storm the school. the wall street journal talked to one parent who says she was put in handcuffs. police tackled another parent and threw them to the ground. and a third was pepper sprayed. police insist their actions inside the school did save lives. the american people need to understand that officers are making entry into the building. they do not know where the gunman is. they re hearing gunshots, they re receiving gunshots. at that point, if they proceeded any further not knowing where this suspect was at, they could have been shot. they could have been killed. at that point that gunman would have the opportunity to kill other people inside the school. video posted oen facebook shows the
elementary school. she saw her teacher killed. for the first time we learn what the killer said before he fired his gun in that classroom. we hear new details about what he did, this witness says he played music during the massacre. and we learn what this brave 11-year-old did to stay alive while it was all happening. all of this at the top of the next hour. in the meantime, the police response to the tragedy that took place here is facing intense scrutiny and there are new questions about the timeline. this is what we know. the 18-year-old gunman was not not confronted by law enforcement before he entered the building. this contradicts what we were told repeatedly by law enforcement. officers at the scene we are told were calling for backup as shots were being fired inside the school. a source close to a teacher who was inside says the school was not on lockdown before the shooter entered, even though he fired shots at two people near the school 12 minutes earlier. fra
wounding several more. 11-year-old survivor says she s terrified of men after what she went through. she didn t want to speak on camera. we re going to play for you what the child explained what happened that day. we re going to tell you, it s going to be hard to hear. it s real, it s important. the 11-year-old miah was in the 4th grade classroom that was in the room, she said they were watching lilo and stitch. the end of the school year. they finished lessons and one of the teachers got an email there was a shooter in the building, and went to the door and he was right there, and they made eye contact the shooter made eye contact with the teacher? and he then shot out the window of the door, and it started so fast. he backed the teacher in the classroom, and he made eye contact with the teacher again. looked her right in the eye, and said, good night, and shot her and killed her. he went through the door to the adjoining classroom, and mia would hear screams. she he
friends. i know everybody has been hearing from loved ones. just shock. i got a note this morning from a friend in mississippi. his pastor wrote the congregation yesterday and said, as i write these words, the sun is rising on may 25th, 2022. another day of mourning in america after another mass shooting at another elementary school. as we pray yet again for those whose lives have been torn us under by a troubled soul wielding a deadly weapon, it seems important and necessary to me to say as a christian pastor that we try to find reasonable ways to reduce gun violence, and that is not political. it is moral. the church needs to have a moral compass which can tell the difference between that which is politically partisan and that which is moral. otherwise, our fear of being political may, at times, make us fall silent concerning matters which we should not be silent. as martin luther king jr. once widely said, the day we fall silent about the things that matter is the day our