a gunman opened fire inside a medical building. he killed his orthopedic surgeon, another doctor, a receptionist and another patient. he then shows hi life. he purchased a gun at 2:00 p.m. yesterday. less than three hours later, he went on a shooting rampage. our training led us to take immediate action without hesitation. that s exactly what officers do. that s what they did in this instant. law enforcement across the nation is dealing with increased violence among people. this is yet another act of violence upon an american city. president biden will address the nation tonight about the gun violence crisis in this country. there have been 233 mass shootings this year. it s june 2nd. that count is according to the gun violence archive. it defines a mass shooting as an incident where four or more people are injured or killed in a shooting. in the eight days since the uvalde elementary school massacre, there have been 20 mass shootings since. we have reporters cover mass s
of continuing pain including a phone call he made yesterday. when he was not able to be seen immediately, he drove to a gun star and one hour later was at the hot shooting. he bought the gun and went in to kill those people that same day. the first 911 call came in at 4:52. four minutes later, police were on scene. officers entered the building on the first floor and made their way to the second floor based on the information they received. while on the second floor of the vast building, officers began yelling tulsa police, this is something that we train to do. as officers were calling out tulsa police and advancing towards a suspect location, they heard a gunshot. we believe that was the final gunshot with the suspect taking his own life. the gunshot was at 4:52 p.m., approximately 39 seconds after the first officers entered the building. police say they know the shooter s motive because they found a letter on his person that confirmed he came to the hospital with the i
had the chief of the local police department on scene here, and what role did they play and why didn t they step up and say, listen, we need to go in, we need to stop this gunman. the fact that he s been singled out by the director of the dps certainly made him unhappy, has ruffled some feathers here, but there are so many more questions and then yesterday, john, you know, we were told here that the swearing in for chief arredondo who was elected on the city council seat was not going to happen, and then we get word here late last night that, you know what, it did happen. they did not invite the media to witness any of this, it was supposed to be a public event, that did not happen, what they did was they had every new city council member come in, on their own, just so that they wouldn t have to call a public meeting for this swearing in, john. shows you their state of mind about maybe what they think of the visuals there. shimon, this door, the door that the killer used to
russian oil import. plus, a history making hurricane agatha slams into mexico as a category two storm. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. thank you for being with us. today marks one week since 21 innocent lives were cut short by a gunman who opened fire inside an elementary school in uvalde, texas. the first funeral will be held in the devastated community one day after grieving families gathered for visitations. more visitations and funerals are planned in the week ahead. 19 students and two teachers killed in the horrific shooting. ? the unimaginable heartbreak and grieving now mixed with growing anger as new details continue to emerge. lucy kavanof has more. reporter: a chaotic scene as police rushed to evacuate children. dispatch audio were aware that kids were still trapped inside. i am here. he s in a room. more devastating details from officials of at least two children calling 911 multiple times, pleading for help as the gunman