with us. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. we will have a very special 11th hour. enough is enough. we re going to break down what s happening, why and where the hell we go from here. go from here they say a picture is worth 1000 words, this is perhaps more. this is the leader news today. the date is may 24th 2022. this, of course, is the day, two days ago. it s been 48 hours killing 19 children, and two teachers. here, at the robb elementary school, in texas. today, another death. the grieving husband of one of the slain teacher says died. joe garcia, married to the teacher irma, collapsed, and i today, courting to his family. he was preparing for the funeral of his wife of 24 years. they were college sweethearts. they were high school sweethearts. his death leaves their four children parent-less it is a reminder, as if this town needed one, the tuesday s tragedy is not over. the shockwaves will reverberate across this community in, countless ways, for countless weeks,
timeline of attack is, frankly, confounding. initial reports suggested, when the shooter approached the school, an armed resource officer, a school resource officer, exchanged fire with him. but, the gunmen was able to get past him, and into the school. then, yesterday, the director of the texas department of public safety said in a briefing, the school resource officer had, quote, engaged the shooter in some way, but not fired his weapon, and the shooter then entered the school. today, a different official is telling the washington post, and it is going to interview the officer to find out. the just an hour after that report, a third dps official laying out the timeline, and at the very end and as of aside, this is what he said. going to mention, they want to clear up, they were coming out early on. they reported with the school district, the officer confronted the suspect that. it is inaccurate. nbc news. my question is, was there a school officer, on campus, and was th
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.
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
minutes of terror. officials say the gunman who murdered 19 children and two teachers was inside the uvalde, texas elementary school for 40 minutes if not longer. during that time, he murdered 21 innocent people. the families of the children you see on your screen, torn apart in a matter of seconds. their parents, brothers and sisters, friends, will never see them again. yesterday s attack has brought the number of shootings to four or more in the united states to 213 incidents this year alone. 213 incident where is four or more people have been shot. to put that into perspective, today is the 145th day of the year, which to do the basic comparison, mean there is have been more mass shootings than days in the year 2022. and there have been at least 30 shootings at k-12 schools already this year. this is unacceptable. but we must say it, it is the reality. and because there s been no action time after time after time again, it actually is accepted. and today, we heard from tex