elementary school. she saw her teacher killed. for the first time we learn what the killer said before he fired his gun in that classroom. we hear new details about what he did, this witness says he played music during the massacre. and we learn what this brave 11-year-old did to stay alive while it was all happening. all of this at the top of the next hour. in the meantime, the police response to the tragedy that took place here is facing intense scrutiny and there are new questions about the timeline. this is what we know. the 18-year-old gunman was not not confronted by law enforcement before he entered the building. this contradicts what we were told repeatedly by law enforcement. officers at the scene we are told were calling for backup as shots were being fired inside the school. a source close to a teacher who was inside says the school was not on lockdown before the shooter entered, even though he fired shots at two people near the school 12 minutes earlier. fra
officials say they had to hold the parents back because of the volatile nature of the situation. and this morning, we are learning the identities of more young victims. leyla salazar, who was 11-years-old, she loved to run, film tiktok videos and dance and ten-year-old alicia ma am rez wanted to draw. she wanted on the an artist. for many of the young survivors, it left them shaken and scarred. here s how a 2nd grader described his ordeal. i was praying thinking what is this happening? i have the fear of guns now. because i m scared someone might shoot me. and again, we are beginning to hear from more children who were inside the school and nearby classrooms. our adrian is here with me now. adrian, you sat down with a young boy who was in one of those classrooms who heard it all going on. tell us about him. reporter: he described the gunshots as loud, louder than what he had heard before, pouring out that his grandfather is a gun owner and he says the sound of this ri
gunman walked into robb elementary unobstructed and in the building for approximately an hour. katie: it started 11:28 a.m. when he crashed his car and shot at onlookers across the street. 11:40 he entered the campus. 40 minutes later they entered confronted backed up. an hour later border patrol entered shot dead. brian: wow, is that different than what we heard yesterday. one girl spread blood on herself and went to survival mode friend of hers who had been shot. one student protecting her students is dead. emma s husband suffered heart attack after placing flowers. family members say he died of a broken heart. today texas governor greg abbott is set to hold a press conference and president biden is going to visit on sunday with the first lady. pete: man, you know, you always struggle with the initial reports not knowing what is. brian: this is oso dramatically different. pete pete so dramatically different. shootout with a school resource officers. multiple officer
all around the world, it is thursday, may 26th. i m john berman live in uvalde, texas. brianna keilar is in washington. behind me is the robb elementary school where 19 children and two teachers were killed. i want to show you what happened here overnight. behind me is this new memorial, you can see flowers, you can see balloons and now just over the last few hours you can see crosses, one for each of the victims killed here. each life taken. 19 of them, of course. just children in the fourth grade, two of them teachers who were in there trying to save their lives. there was a vigil last night where the community here came together, it s a small town just over 15,000 people, and so many people we talked to have connections to the victims. tesberi mata was hoping to go to bravo. nevaeh bravo also 10. these are the stories that you will hear this morning. a fourth grade teacher who sacrificed herself protecting the children, a grieving father who found out his daughter died try
15,000 people and so many of the people we talked to have connections to the victims. tess maria mata was 10 years old, she was saving every dollar hoping to go to disney world. nevaeh bravo also 10 has been remembered as a young girl who put a smile on everyone s face. these are the stories that you will hear this morning. a fourth grade teacher who sacrificed herself protecting the children, a grieving father who found out his daughter died trying to save her classmates. we have learned that by tonight all of the victims their bodies will be released to funeral homes for arrangements. and some new reporting this morning about the excruciating moments outside of the school during the shooting. one parent telling the washington post, quote, there were five or six of us fathers hearing the gunshots and police officers were telling us to move back. we didn t care about us, we wanted to storm the building. we were saying let s go because that is how worried we were and we wa