a killer, we just don t want any part of that. history should not remember this person s name. instead, history should remember, and we all should hear the names of those murdered here, the children and their teacher. they are the ones that matter. amory joe garza matters. she was 10 years old. her dad is going to join us in just a few minutes. he says his daughter was full of life, always telling jokes, always smiling. on social media this monk, he wrote, please don t take a second for granted. hug your family. tell them you love them. i love you, amerie jo, he said. javier lopez matters. he was 10 years old. javier attended a school honor roll ceremony just before he was killed. his mom telling the washington post that he could not wait to go to middle school. that is what he was looking forward to. she says she ll never forget his smile. it would cheer anyone up, she says. ucia garcia matters. he was also 10 years old. his uncle tells us he loved video games and anything
the kids who lived and died there, the distraught parents and community trying to rally around them. a lot we haven t learned yet, maybe we never will about motive behind this senseless killing and the police response and time line of what happened in small town on awards day at the end of the school year. all those families that will never be the same again. she was the sweetest little girl who did nothing wrong. she listened to her mom and dad. she always brushed her teeth. she was creative. she made things for us. she never got in trouble in school. i just want to know what she did to be a victim. that s one of the interviews i mentioned to anderson. it s heartbreaking. a small town that will never be able to forget what happened. ever. there s so many unanswered questions tonight but we re learn more about the 18-year-old shooter and what happened yesterday morning an exclusive details about chilling warnings minutes before shooting started. the gunman texting with a te
he was in the building 40 minutes for an hour barricaded in two classrooms before he was shot and killed by border patrol agent. we re learning about the li lives of the 19 children and 2 teachers one is a wife and mother of four and. died shielding students from gunfire. irma garcia. garza was just 10 years old he talked about how he learned was never going to come home from school i got confirmation that she was trying to call authorities and i guess he just shot her. how do you look at this girl and shoot her? oh, my baby. i miss my baby. all of the dead were in the same fourth grade classroom all 19 young lives described as precious, their teachers dedicated and carrying. more now reporter: 21 lives brutally cut short and 21 family shattered by act of violence all too common in the united states. 19 thank gone just days before the start of the summer break, none yet out of 4th grade, like 10-year-old uzia garcia who s uncle called him a great kid and full of life
residents of uvalde, texas, are holding vigils for the 19 children and two teachers gunned down inside robb elementary school by an 18-year-old high school dropout. and people are leaving flowers and balloons at a makeshift memorial outside the school in the largely latino community not far from the border with mexico. and we are learning the names of some of the victims, mostly 9 and 10-year-old children. the justice of the peace in uvalde says some of the bodies are being released to funeral homes as families make their arrangements. more now on the investigation from cnn s jason carol. reporter: 11:21 a.m., the time stamp from a text message the gunman sent saying he s just shot his grandmother. the gunman was 18 years old and reportedly a high school dropout. reportedly there has been no criminal history identified yet. there was no known mental health history of the gunman. reporter: soon after that text message to a girl ramos met online, another one saying he w
in mourning. vigils are under way and families are making funeral arrangements. a makeshift memorial with flowers and balloons is growing outside robb elementary school. u.s. president joe biden will travel to texas soon to visit the families of the victims. we must ask when in god s name will we do what needs to be done to if not completely stop, fundamentally change the amount of carnage that goes on in this country? to state the obvious like a lot of other people here i m sick and tired. i m just sick and tired of what s going on and continues to go on. and former friend says the gunman, salvador ramos, had a history of fighting as seen here in a video obtained by cnn. investigators say he was inside the school for 40 minutes to an hour barricaded inside two adjoining classrooms before he was shot and killed by a border patrol agent. more now on the investigation from cnn s ed lavandera. i m going to shoot an elementary school. reporter: that was one of the chill