john: fox team coverage from across the country. bill will begin things for us on the ground in uvalde, texas for us. our coverage continues. bill. bill: sandra, a lot of conflicting reporting whether or not there was a school police officer on campus when the shooting took place. texas d.p.s. tells me there was a school officer on campus who exchanged gunfire with this gunman. i m told that the officer was shot and injured and that is when the shooter ran inside the school, got into a classroom, barricaded himself and started shooting in discrimnatly, shows the 18-year-old local resident armed with the rifle going into the school. he shot his grandmother in the face a short time before this, then drove to the school, crashed his car, got out, apparently engaged in gunfire with the school officer, hurt him, went inside, then committed this heinous shooting. take a listen to the 911 dispatch audio. all units stand by. bill: if you look at video of children evacuated
the killer exchanged gunfire with police wounding two officers before being shot and killed by law enforcement. the 18-year-old used a rifle to carry out the nation s deadliest school attack in a decade. these photos were posted to an instagram account linked to it. one of his social media posts read, quote, kids be scared. a fire fighter on the scene says the gunman was inside that school for about 30 minutes before law enforcement ended the siege. to figure he was in there for so long in that classroom and the officers initially on scene couldn t do anything. well, you got to take into account when you have someone with this intent to just kill anybody, have no regard for human life and also with a rifle, he can kill numerous people in a matter of seconds. so those officers were able to respond at a moment s notice. there could have been further loss of life if they weren t on scene to break those windows and rescue any children and teachers inside that classroom. thi
of a mass shooting. this one at an elementary school. in about a half an hour, we expect an update from greg abbott on yesterday s shooting at rob elementary school. police say the shooter, armed with an ar-style rifle and wearing the type of vest tactical teams use, entered the school, barricaded himself in a classroom, and opened fire. police say they eventually had to break windows to evacuate other students and staffers. as investigators continue to piece together what transpired, they re learning more about the suspect himself. they have identified him as 18-year-old uvalde resident. no friend or girlfriend that we can identify. it s hard to identify what caused or sent this individual to, you know, complete this heinous act, this evil act. it shows you pure evilness with this individual going into a school, barricading himself inside a classroom, and shooting children and teachers. meanwhile, in washington flags are flying at half-staff outside the white house the d