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.
overnight, the cross. one for each of the 19 children and two teachers who died here. this was the digital community last night. everyone came together. you can see the pain and the tears, which really does feel like a small town, 15,000 people. it s hard to find anyone that does not have a direct connection to one of the victims. she was 10-years-old. she want wanted go to disney world. maria bravo is remembered for a young girl who put a smile on everyone s face. we are telling their stories this morning. a 4th grade teacher who sacrificed herself trying to protect the children. a grieving father who find out his daughter died trying to save her classmates. we told yesterday then of the bodies were turned over to the families of the funeral homs. the rest will be turned over this morning so that the families can make arrangements. we do have if you details about how the mass shooting up f unfolded. the 18-year-old was on school grounds for up to an hour. moments before
two blocks away, life looks as it normally does. but something terrible did happen here. this community, this small community lost 21 of its people right here at this school, everything has changed forever, this will never be a normal spot again. this school, this town, becomes yet another name on a list that no one wants to be on. tonight, a vigil here in uvalde, texas is underway, it s paying tribute to yesterday s victims we will have much more throughout the show tonight, about the victims, the people who lost their lives. 19 children, and two teachers at robb elementary, we re still learning the identity of some of the children who were killed. they were eight, nine, ten years old. all of them in the same fourth grade classroom, murdered with their teachers. let me bring you up to speed with what we know at this point about how this massacre unfolded, as well as some of the things that we don t yet now. this is the series of events laid out for us by texas law enforcemen
classroom. parents sharing stories about the wonderful young children they loved and lost. and the heartbreak that will last forever. our correspondents are covering every angle of this story, including cnn teams on the scene in texas. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, investigators are starting to put together the pieces of america s newest shooting massacre. the epidemic of gun violence invading yet another school and claiming 21 more innocent lives, most of them young kids. cnn national correspondent jason carroll begins our coverage at the scene of the attack in texas. jason, state officials revealed new details of how this horrible rampage played out. and wolf, just a day after the shooting, the gravity of what s happened here has begun to sink in even more with this community. the governor here is saying that as far as they can tell so far, the suspect, the shoo
known lies for assault on texas. or really, pry nation. police say an 18 year old gunman overlaying tuesday morning and said that, and in texas. at least 19 children died. the victims was a very morales. she s been a teacher for 17 years. and according to the new york times, she was brutally murdered was trying to protect doses. president biden ordered flags on the white house and over public buildings lortabs of. and several hours ago, he spoke to the nation about every mask. i hoped that whatever can president, i will not have to do this again. another massacre, and uvalde, texas. an elementary school. beautiful, innocent, second, third, fourth graders. and how many scores of children who witnessed what happened. as a nation of, task one and doesn t they are gonna stand up to the gun lobby? not yet, obviously. our coverage becomes the sorrow and the senior correspondent lexus never guaranteed, was the latest? we spoke to our-able. yeah, the senior continues in almost