we don t understand exactly what happened, but i think that they should have gone in and secured that are you saying that your brother went inside when he first arrived at the school and stayed inside and did not retreat as some have suggested? right. they did not retreat, and so the shooter was down. they were in there that entire time. a bit of hindsight where i m sitting now, of course it was not the right decision, it was the wrong decision. there is no excuse for that. but, again, i wasn t there the, but i m just telling you from what we know, we believe there should have been an entry. hey, when there s an active shooter, the rules change. neil: five days after the shooting, still questions as to could a number of them have been prevented. welcome, everybody, i m neil cavuto, and this is cavuto live. for the next two hours, we re going to be exploring exactly what happened in texas and the mixed signals we re getting out of that school and what happened in t
in uvalde, texas where president biden will be tomorrow, jeff to you. and the more we learn about the shooting, the more difficult it gets for in community to grasp what exactly happened at robb elementary school. despite what investigators had initially told the public. we learned the shooter was not confronted by anyone from the time he crashed his pickup truck and began shooting at the school. a minute before the suspected shooter crashed that truck, a teacher at the school had walked outside, propped open a door and then went back inside, and left that door propped open. we re learning that 19 officers stood in the hallway of the school for nearly an hour before a border patrol agent showed up with a master key he had found to open up the door to enter and then kill the suspect. and while the clock was ticking for that to happen. investigators disclosed children were calling 911 begging for operators to send in police to help. texas dps say the local incident commander
happened. he fired at people across the street and as he approached the school as he approached the unlocked wack door. carley: he walked in 11:40 a.m. and made his way toward the classroom and carried out his attack. four minutes later, officers arrived on the scene and were met with gunfire inside the school. they took cover to wait for backup and evacuate other rooms. an hour later a special unit entered by force and shot the suspect dead. ashley strohmier has more. ashley. ashley: a texas department of public safety rep said on tuesday the school resource officer had engaged with the shooter before he went into the school. that statement contradiktss what we heard in a news conference yesterday. it was reported a school district police officer confronted the suspect as he was making entry. not accurate. he walked in unobstructed. ashley: we are told there was no officer on site at the time of the shooting. officers didn t immediately go in because of gunfire and
Newsroom with jim acosta begins now good morning you were. Alive in this unit newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington and we begin with Breaking News out of michigan. The parents of Oxford School shooter, Ethan Crumbley are in court facetoface with their sons, victims ahead of their sentencing, james and Jennifer Crumbley were both found guilty of four counts. Involuntary manslaughter after their teenage son brutally murdered four of his classmates back in 2021, they are the first parents to be held responsible for a School Shooting committed by their child. Youre looking at a picture is coming from inside the courtroom as we speak, cnns jean casarez joins us now, gene tell us whats happening in court right now. And about this prospect that were gonna be seeing in just a few moments here of the parents of these victims coming facetoface with Ethan Crumbleys parents. That is going to be an incredibly emotional moment that will be the emotional moment because the parents of the four studen