parents who are unarmed, unprotected, rushing in get their children. you can understand why, when they see law enforcement holding them back and not going in the other direction, there are certainly questions and hopefully we ll get answers to those. but we see, as shimon has classified it or characterized it, the alphabet soup of law enforcement there in uvalde. it s just starting now, victor. sorry to interrupt you. we re just they re just starting now. good afternoon. i m regional director for dps south texas. thank you so much for being here today. my goal today on this conference, this press conference, is to give you a snapshot, where we re at today. this incident happened on tuesday, may 24th, so there s a lot of information, a lot of moving parts. we have a lot of people involved in this investigation. i m going to give you a summary of what happened. but before i do that, i was able
to make it here during the event on may 24th, same with a lot of other law enforcement officers that came to this event, this critical incident. i got to see the victims. i got to see the officers. i got to see the community members. it is it is so hard. it is very it s hard to take. it s traumatic. we re all hurting inside. we re hurting inside for the community members in uvalde, texas. we re hurting inside with our local partners that have to live here and work here every day. the victims, the family members, we feel for them. i m a father. i can go home tonight, hug my kids. that hurts. the members behind me are family members. their kids, it s tough. it s tough. it s hard. but that gives us the motivation
will confirm or allay concerns by parents and the local community but i think we have to wait for some time for the full report to come about. you know, something i mentioned yesterday during our broadcast, it is something to keep in mind, the fbi through its behavioral analysis unit, many know from what they have seen on the television and the movies, they go to the scenes. i had the pleasure of working with some of these individuals during my career, and they go off to these incidents sometimes just on the heels of it occurring, as quick as they can get there and start their own analysis, and looking at the factors from the way the police behaved and the shooter, looking at a pattern to improve this. and done it from the beginning of the horrific events, and done everything from the pulse nightclub to the columbine shooting and sandy hook, and they do that. supplemental to whatever the police in texas provide.
and we are back in the fox news channel. sandra, very interesting information we saw from victor escalon, fills in some blanks and creates more questions. sandra: he walked in undisrupted or unobstructed, not sure the word escalon used there, but walked in initially, he was not confronted by anybody. it s safe to say, and we ll bring bill in here, he was listening, he is in uvalde, texas for us, and what happened, and was there exchange of gunfire at the door, there was never an armed security guard at the door to begin with. bill: yeah, and that is the highlight from that press conference from me. keep in mind yesterday texas dps reported there was an officer,
to move on to do good work for uvalde, texas. for the victims. we speak for the victims, and we take that dearly. before i get started, texas rangers are leading this investigation. but we can t do it alone. we cannot do it alone. we have atf, fbi, cbp, border patrol, uvalde county district attorney s office. the list goes on and on and on. but the agencies i told you are the main ones that are assisting with this investigation. we want to know what happened, recreate the scene. that takes days. that takes hours. that takes time. lot of information. then we have to do a lot of