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with gunshots going off. and the trauma this entire ordeal is leaving on such young children. their parents and a nation wishing to wipe away the pain. welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper. we start today with an absolutely devastating admission about the school shooting in uvalde, texas. for the benefit of hindsight, where i m sitting now, of course, it was not the right decision. it was the wrong decision, period. that statement coming from the thead of the texas departmet of safety. he said officers on the scene should have breached the classroom door immediately. he said the commander on scene decided no more children were at risk. and they allowed the shooter to stay inside the classroom for more than an hour, despite the fact that kids inside the room were calling 911 and begging for police to help. what efforts were the officers making to try and break through either that door or another door to get inside that classroom? none at ....
Camera, traumatized after watching the gunman shoot her teacher and classmates. maya smeared the blood of a dead class mate all over herself and played dead. now, even routine noises trigger pain. your alarm went off accidentally on your cell phone while you were talking to her. what happened? i felt so bad. i mean, it was just an accident, and she just kind of she clearly was kind of triggered by that. and her mom said, you know that s been happening a lot. they were at a car wash yesterday and went to vacuum out the car, and it completely set her off. she s not sleeping right now. she s in the whole interview, she brought a blanket with her, and the whole interview, she was covering herself in this blanket, and it was hot. it felt like she was trying to keep herself covered. i m going sari ....
what efforts were the officers making to try and break through either that door or another door to get inside that classroom? none at that time. why? the on-scene commander at the time believed it had transitioned from an active shooter to a barricaded subject. sir, you have people who are alive, children who are calling 911, saying please send the police. they are alive. in that classroom. there are lives that are at risk. that admission likely to make it even harder for the families burying their loved ones and the children who survived and are now struggling with confusion, guilt, and fear. one of them, 11-year-old maya sorillo. in a conversation with nora nuse, recounted watching her teachers and classmates being killed. their teacher got word there ....
Was a shooter in and the building and went out to lock the door, but maya says the shooter was right there. and he shot out the window in the door. she describes it all happening so fast from there. her teacher backing into the classroom and the gunman following. she says the shooter looked one of her teachers in the eye, said good night, and then shot her. another survivor, jaden, who told adrian broaddus he could hear gunfire from where he was hiding with his classmates and learns later some of them were killed. do you ever want to go to school? no, because i don t want anything to do with another shooting. and me in the school. you re scared it might happen again? mm-hmm. and i know it might happen again. and the sad part of that is there are no assurances we can give to that little boy that it ....