contemplated an additional mass shooting. there s new word about how his father helped him obtain a gun license he likely should not have had given the red flags in his past. a young man who had attempted suicide and yet his father helped him get a gun license. more on all of it shortly. first, though, because we have the names of all seven peoplekilled, we want to begin with who they were. eduardo uvaldo had just celebrated his 50th wedding anniversary. his wife and four daughters were everything to him. his daughter telling cnn that he would have turned 70 on friday. despite being the oldest victim at 88, stephen straus was still active, still enjoying life, according to one grandson. another agreed, and i m quoting here, america s cultural worship of guns is deadly, it kills grandfathers. and it certainly did in this case. nicolas toledo had eight children, countless groundchildren, one of whom describes him as a loving man who was creative, adventurous and funny. in hig
violence causes and the way he was able to survive it and the way he s able to live, is an incredible, incredible story, but also, the failures of law enforcement and police and the story he tells here is so, so important, anderson. you know, more than 20 years ago, columbine, a teacher was shot to death and died not immediately, he bled out while the police were waiting for a s.w.a.t. team, and that was more than 20 years ago, columbine, and police have learned a whole lot since then and everybody knows they don t wait any longer. and yet these someone made the decision to wait and we still don t have answers on exactly what happened and it s very frustrating and no tea teacher this man should not have laid there, we learned the lessons, to make that not happen again. shimon, as always, appreciate you staying on this, because it s so important. they want this swept away, they want nobody paying attention. up next, a look at how teachers in another state
what the counselor saw at the time and that s part of the investigation, but again, my reaction to the whole process is that if it was concerning to the tea teacher in the classroom enough ultimately to call in parents, at that point, we would have loved to have been looped in. thank you. sheriff, the attorneys for the parents said that what s been presented so far has been cherry picked and slanted. obviously this investigation is still ongoing. there s a lot we don t know. but has what s been released to the public, does that paint a fairly accurate representation of what happened here? well, i certainly that s you know, a part ooff the picture a we re still finishing the picture, we re fill nging in th details as we learn them and get additional facts. but i certainly also believe that it s accurate.
joining us right now from indianapolis is dr. julie clayrich, a parent and former tea tea teacher. thanks so much for joining us. thank you for having me. you re a former teacher and parent right now of a student. what are the first thoughts when you find out about the retirement package issued in 2007? i was pretty much outraged that he was given a million dollars to retire when our students are suffering from programs being taken away. i wanted answers. and you did. you wanted it from the board. you hired a lawyer? no, we have not hired a lawyer. the school board already has an attorney that apparently said the contract was legally sound. apparently, that attorney did not give any financial advice regarding that contract. he said it was not part of his job. and now the school board has hired another attorney which will be paid for out of the general fund that is going to look into the investigation.