as jason carroll reports now for us, top officials and family members of the victims of course want answers. >> i was misled. i am livid about what happened. >> reporter: texas governor greg abbott aiming his ire at law enforcement. >> my expectation is that the law enforcement leaders that are leading the investigations, which includes the texas rangers and the fbi, they get to the bottom of every fact with absolute certainty. >> reporter: after damning new admissions from texas authorities. >> it was the wrong decision. period. >> reporter: the incident commander making the decision not to immediately enter the classroom the gunman was in. >> a decision was made that this was a barricaded subject situation, there was time to retrieve the keys and wait for a tactical team with the equipment to go ahead and breach the door and take on the subject at that point. >> reporter: officials explained how the shooter got into the school. >> where we knew the shooter entered, ramos, was propped open by a teacher. >> reporter: investigators clarifying the timeline as police arrived. >> the three init

we have more now on the investigation from cnn's jason carrol. >> reporter: 11:21 a.m. the time stamp from a text message the gunman sent saying he's just shot his grandmother. >> the gunman was 18-years-old and reportedly a high school dropout. reportedly there has been no criminal history identified yet. there was no known mental health history of the gunman. >> reporter: soon after that text message to a girl ramos met online, another one saying he was going to shoot up an elementary school. his grandmother fighting for her life contacted police after leaving his grandmother's home, the gunman crashed her truck in a ditch. 11:30 a.m., authorities say a 911 call came in reporting a man walking towards the school with body armour and a long rifle. >> he went towards the west side of the campus, which is a back door. the subject was able to make it into the school as the government reported. he went down hallway, turned right and turned left, there were two classrooms that wered a joining. that's where the carnage began. >> reporter: then roughly an hour goes by. >> bor

cnn's jason carroll is with us here. jason, there are so many major questions about the timeline of this horrific shooting. what are you learning tonight? >> reporter: don, we're definitely getting more clarity, more details before the shooter got to school between 11:28 a.m. and 11:44 a.m. but the parents we have spoken to wonder where it took more than an hour to take the gunman down. 11:22 a.m. tuesday, i just shot my grandma in her head, he wrote to a girl he met online. it was the start of a shooting spree that would leave 19 students and two teachers dead. seconds later, he wrote, i'm going to go shoot up an elementary school right now. the gunman took off in her grandmother's truck, leaving her to fight for her life. >> she was able to go across the street and get help. >> he crashed into a ditch at 8:00 a.m. two minutes later a 911 call reported the wreck and the gunman walking toward robb elementary school with a long rifle. his weapons legally purchased just days before. may 17 he bought a rifle at a sporting g

as jason carroll reports, top police officials now say, i was a mistake to not engage the shooter earlier. >> i was misled. i'm livid about what happened. >> texas governor, aiming his iron at law enforcement. my >> expectation is that the law enforcement leaders that are leading the investigations, which includes the texas rangers and the fbi, they get to the bottom of every fact with absolute certainty. >> after a damning new admissions from texas authorities -- they incident commander making the decision not to immediately enter the classroom the gunman was in. >> this was a barricaded subject -- there was time to retrieve the keys and wait for a tactical team with the equipment to go ahead and reach the door and take on the -- officials explained how the shooter got into the school. -- was propped open by a teacher. investigators clarified the timeline as police arrived. >> they went directly to the door and two received grazing wounds at that time from the suspect. while the door was closed. 11:37, there was more gunfire, another 16 rounds were fired. 11:37, -- 16 seven -- 11:44 -- 1

jason carroll, cnn, uvalde, texas. >> the families of those who were shot and killed at robb elementary have already endured days of course of pain and grief. the bodies of 19 of the 21 victims have been released to funeral homes. you are looking at those faces now. so instead of celebrating the end of school and the start of the summer vacation, families are now planning funerals and memorial services for their loved ones. boris sanchez has more on the lives lost in uvalde. >> reporter: as the families of those killed the robb elementary school plan their final good-byes -- >> hearts are broken. we are devastated. >> reporter: -- clintnn is lear more about the victims. just 9 years old, her grandparents telling the l.a. teams she loved cheer leading and basketball and dreamed of becoming a teacher. and annabel rodriguez was also killed, her family telling khou the fourth grader shared a classroom with her cousin, jacqueline, who was also murdered. jackie's father says she touched a lot of people lives and recently had her first co communion. >> comforted me that she helped her friends.

wolf. >> jason, thank you very much. jason carroll on the scene for us. let's hear more now from some of the families who are remembering the victims and sharing their own enormous grief right now. cnn's boris sanchez has their stories. >> 21 lives brutally cut short. 21 families now shattered by an act of violence all too common in the united states. >> it's really hard to see what happened today here as a grandma. yeah, it is very hard. i can't imagine going through that with one of my grandkids. my heart is broken for the parents here. >> 19 children now gone, just days before the start of summer break. none yet out of fourth grade. like 10-year-old uziyah garcia, whose uncle calls him a great kid and full of life. he loved video games and anything with wheels. uziyah's grandfather calling his grandson the sweetest little boy he's ever known. renfro telling the affiliate he played football with him, he was fast, could catch well, and remembered all the routes they practiced. and amerie jo garza, just 10 years old, after spending hours desperately searc

cnn national correspondent jason carroll is on the scene for us. jason, police revealed alarming new details as you well know as they face very serious questions right now about their response to the massacre. >> reporter: yes, wolf. as you know, a lot of details that authorities still have to clarify out here, especially after they gave out that bad information about who had initially responded to the shooting. all of this as parents out here in this community are still frustrated, very, very angry, and looking for answers as to why it took more than an hour to take counsel the shooter. tonight cnn has obtained video showing frantic parents gathered beyond the police line while the shooter was inside their children's school. >> they were breaking the windows to get the kids out of the windows. so at that point i knew the shooter was still alive. >> reporter: some parents ready to go into the building held back by loved ones and police. victor luna was one of those parents. his son, who was in the fourth grade, survived. >> i told one of the office

jason carroll, cnn, new york. >>> and another shooting on sunday in southern california. a doctor who was killed is also being praised for his bravery. the gunman opened fire in a chinese church service, wounding five people. dr. don chang was shot dead. they say chang's heroic actions helped save lives. >> it is known that dr. chang charged the individual, the suspect, attempted to disarm him which allowed other parishioners to intercede, taking the suspect into custody. >> investigators have identified the shooter, 68-year-old david cho, a u.s. citizen born in china. they believe the shooting was politically motivated, that cho was upset over tensions between china and taiwan. they believe he had no connection with the church or its parishioners. >>> just ahead here, one ukranian man's story of survival after russian soldiers tortured him and buried him alive. ♪ you inspired the lexus es to be, well... more you. so thank you. we hope u like your work. ♪ pre-rinsing your dishes? u could be using the wrong detergent. and wasting up to 20 gallons of water. skip the rin

first up, jason carroll on more we know about the shooting itself. do we know more on the timeline of what happened? >> reporter: we do, we do, we're getting more clarity, anderson, what happened in those key moments between 11:28 a.m. and 11:44 a.m. on that day you'll hear more in a moment but what a number of people in this community, particularly those parents who were out here urging these authority to see move in quick, they are still waiting for answers why it took so long to take the gunman down. >> 11:21 a.m. tuesday, i just shot my grandma in her head, the gunman wrote to a girl he met online. it was the start of a shooting spree, seconds later he wrote i'm going to go shoot up an elementary school right now. >> the gunman took off in his 66-year-old grandmother's truck. >> she was able to run across the street to a neighbor and get help. >> reporter: crashing into a ditch at 11:28 a.m., two minute said later, 911 call reported the wreck and gunman walking toward the elementary school with a long rifle, his weapons legally purchased day befo

>> jason carroll in uvalde, texas, thanks so much. joining us to discuss is city councilman of uvalde. i understand your nieces and nephews attend robb elementary school and you went there as a child. how are you and your family and the community holding up today? >> they're hanging on pretty good, as best as we can. that is correct, i do have two nieces that go to that school, and correct again, i was on the scene about20, 22 minutes after it began. i got the text that there was a shooter at the school. i closed my office and drove here real quick. i mean, as soon as i got here, there was a lot of police officers and a lot of people. and it was just very, very hectic. what i witnessed was, there was a lot of police officers running in and out of the building on the east side of the building. when i went towards the west side of the building, i could see there was more officers on the other side, and it was just a hectic scene. >> the department of public safety in texas says it was more than an hour between when officers first entere

carroll. you've spoken to parents who say they want accountability. they are furious about this. >> one of them in particular, alfred garza, his daughter amerie, she went to the school here. she was in the fourth grade, as you know, boris, she did not survive. initially as all of this was happening, he was wondering what was taking so long for law enforcement to move in there and to breach that door and deal with this particular shooter. initially, he said he was told that law enforcement did everything that they needed to do. now he is looking for accountability. >> they needed to act immediately, you know. there's kids involved, you know, there's a gun involved. there's an active shooter wanting to do harm, you know, those are recipes for disaster, and as soon as you get there, somebody should have gotten off the car, jumped the fence, slammed open the door as fast as he got in there and tried to change -- change the outcome. had they done that, you know, maybe we would have a different resu

let's bring in cnn's jason carroll. he's here in uvalde and been here since this happened. brings up to speed with the latest on the investigation and what you're hearing from family members who are processing this tragedy. >> and it comes down to the timeline and the key moment and the question of why they waited. why they waited to breach that door. the governor called it a inexcusable mistake. they've called it a mistake. it was a tranlic mistake. and at this point you have a number of parents, some of whom we've spoken to who say they are looking for some sort of accountability. >> it was a wrong decision. period. >> a damming new admission from texas authorities. the incident commander made the decision not to immediately enter the classroom where the gunman was hiding. >> a decision was made that this is a barricaded subject situation, there was time to retrieve the keys and wait for a tactical team with the equipment to go ahead and breach the door and take on the subject at that point. >> officials explained how the shooter got into the school. >> when we knew the s

cnn's jason carroll has more on the time line of events. >> i was misled. i am livid about what happened. >> texas governor greg abbott aiming his ire at law enforcement. my expectation is that the law enforcement leaders that are leading the investigations, which includes the texas rangers and the fbi, they get to the bottom of every fact with absolute certainty. >> reporter: after damning new admissions from texas authorities. >> it was the wrong decision, period. >> reporter: the incident commander making the decision not to immediately enter the classroom the gunman was in. >> a decision was made this was a barricaded subject situation. there was time to retrieve the keys and wait for a tactical team with the equipment to go ahead and breach the door and take on the subject at that point. >> reporter: officials explained how the shooter got into the school. >> where we knew the shooter entered, ramos, was propped open by a teacher. >> reporter: investigators clarifying the time line as police arrived. >> the three initial police officers that arrived we

jason carroll in uvalde, texas, thank you. >>> and police have been pressed for answers all day long, specifically on how did officers not go in to help the children trapped in that classroom with the killer for so long, for an hour? i want to bring in shimon prokupecz. clearly, there was a potentially deadly disconnect between 911 dispatch and officers on the ground or i don't know what to think of this. what explanation is there for this? >> well, we don't have really an explanation for this. other police departments communicate regularly, sadly, in these types of situations, an active shooting situation, where 911 dispatchers are able to communicate with police officers on the ground when they see something, when they hear something, when they're getting calls from people inside. so we're not getting that kind of explanation. despite the director here taking, you know, a fair number of questions, those kind of details we still don't have. they are important. specifically like that one piece of detail as to why the head of the school police here decided that this was going to be a b

jason carroll starts us off. >> i was misled. i am livid about what happened. >> reporter: tonight, texas governor greg abbott aiming his ire at law enforcement. >> my expectation is the law enforcement leaders leading the investigations which includes the texas rangers and the fbi, they get to the bottom of every fact with absolute certainty. >> reporter: after damning new admission from texas authorities, the incident commander making the decision not to immediately enter the classroom the gunman was in. >> decision was made this was a barricaded subject, that there was time to retrieve the keys and wait for a tactical team with the equipment to go ahead and breach the door and take on the subject at that point. >> reporter: officials explained how the shooter got into the school. >> we knew the shooter entered, ramos, the door was propped open by a teacher. >> reporter: investigators clarifying the timeline as police arrived. >> the three initial police officers that arrived went right into the door and two received grazing wo

jake. >> jason carroll in uvalde, texas, thank you so much. >> you're offering us nothing. that's what former texas congressman beto o'rourke shouted at texas governor greg abbott today during that news conference we showed you. o'rourke after being shut down inside, spoke out in the parking lot outside the gathering. >> he's refused to support a ban on ar-15s and ak-47s. this 18-year-old who just turned 18 bought an ar-15 and took it into an elementary school and shot kids in the face and killed them. why are we letting this happen in this country? why is this happening in this state? year after year, city after city. stop selling ar-15s in the state of texas. you want a solution? have universal background checks. we don't have them. you want a solution? red flag laws or extreme risk protection orders which stop a shooting before it happens. you want a solution? safe storage. it's absolutely wrong. in fact, it is insane. the governor talks about mental health. it's insane that we allow an 18-year-old to go in and buy an a. -15. what did we think he was going to do with tha

cnn's jason carroll has more. >> reporter: these two picturesque beachfront villas in the bahamas likely hold answers as to what killed three vacationers last week and nearly took the life of another. michael and his wife robbie phillips were from tennessee and owned a travel agency. robbie's travel blog says their agency was preferred by sandals resorts and she appeared to actively promote their properties. vincent schiarella and his wife donnis were staying at a neighboring villa. both villas share a common wall and have separate entrances. last thursday police say the couples ate at separate restaurants in the resort and settled in for the evening. both couples were not feeling well that night, they felt so sick, in fact, they had to be treated at a local medical facility. their symptoms included nausea and vomiting. at one point they felt well enough to return here to the resort. the next morning, police got an emergency call from the staff here at sandals, saying that they had found an unresponsive male in one of these villas. then another call, saying the staff had also found an ad

for more on the fallout, let's bring in cnn national correspondent jason carroll. fill us in on what you've learned about the decisions that were made as officers were outside the school and the shooter was inside. >> as you know, a lot of people have a lot of questions about that decision. it was a tragic decision. the governor basically saying he called what happened inexcusable. he says that he, like the rest of the public, was misled about what happened here in terms of law enforcement's response during that shooting. >> it was the wrong decision, period. >> a damning new admission from texas authorities. the incident commander made the decision not to immediately enter the classroom where the gunman was hiding. >> a decision was made that this was a barricaded subject, situation, there was time to retrieve the keys and wait for a tactical team with the equipment to go ahead and breach the door and take on the subject at that point. >> officials explained how the shooter got into the school. >> we knew the shooter entered, ramos was propped open by a teacher. >

jake. >> jason carroll in new york, thanks so much. officials in buffalo are starting a news conference about the latest information. let's listen in. >> continue to move forward as a strong city of buffalo, county of erie and new york region. late today, we have been made aware of many social media posts going around with possible threats. i want to be clear, buffalo police and our partnering law enforcement agencies standing here are investigating these social media posts and will prosecute if necessary. i want to emphasize, arrests have already been made, and you'll be hearing more about those. i'm now going to turn things over to buffalo police commissioner joseph gramalia. >> thank you, mayor. >> so as i said before, this is a very long investigation. it's going to continue to be a very lengthy investigation. the scene is still being processed, search warrants have been obtained and executed and they will still be obtained. there's a lot of digital footprint, electronics we'll have to go through. so that process is ongoing. inform

anderson. >> jason carroll, appreciate it. joining me now is john flynn, the district attorney of erie county where buffalo is located. appreciate you being with us. this is still obviously an active investigation. can you tell us where things stand tonight, the kind of evidence your office is looking at? >> sure. we're looking at all the evidence that we have gathered so far, and we're looking at all the evidence that potentially is out there as well. as far as where things stand right now, we have a felony hearing that is scheduled for thursday. we had the arraignment on saturday. and he is now going to be facing the murder in the first degree charge at that felony hearing on thursday at 9:30. >> how important is this 180-page racist rant that the shooter allegedly wrote? we just talked to a professor in our previous segment who ran it through a plagiarism software and found chunks tof were taken directly from the christchurch shooter in new zealand's racist rant. >> it's a very important piece of evidence, anderson. in the

. >> absolutely, there needs to be accountability, jason carroll, thank you very much. let's bring in our shimon prokupecz in uvalde, texas, and along with us charles ramsey and the police chief ryan higgins, thank you for being with us. shimon, moments ago, we saw the governor of texas, abbott, claims he was misled. they can't get their stories straight and now they're pointing fingers, are we starting to piece together what happened and what went wrong? >> reporter: i don't know if we know what went wrong. someone was providing that information of senior leaders and law enforcement whether people are lying or making themselves out to be heroes. they were trying to cover responsibility. that's something going through investigation and hopefully will figure it out. the thing with the governor, he was briefed by the head of dps, director of public safety here in texas. he took to the podium today to reveal all of these information. that was someone reporting directly to the governor and re re re re resu resu resumablely. everyone calling for some type of an independent i

let's get to jason carroll, shimon prokupecz, who are in uvalde, texas. and also, joined by cnn senior law enforcement andrew mccabe, former deputy district director. let's begin with you, though, jason on the scene, and more on the fateful decision to wait. what more do you know he? >> a decision, pamela, the governor called quote inexcusable. he also said it was unacceptable. he says he was, like the rest of the public, misled about exactly what happened here at the school with law enforcement. >> it was a of the wrong decision, period. >> tonight, a damning new admission from texas' authorities. the incident commander made the decision not to immediately enter the classroom where the gunman was hiding. >> a decision was made that this was a barricaded subject. situation, there was time to retrieve the keys and wait for a tactical team with the equipment to -- to go ahead and breach the door and take on the subject at that point. >> reporter: officials explained how the shooter got into the school. >> where we know the -- the shooter entered -- ramos --

jason carroll is here now with more on this. >> very disturbing story, officer mendoza is being held without bail. this is because the district attorney says that this officer in question, he says, shot and killed thomas t.j.sedario when he was essentially on the ground and essentially unarmed. this coming from the d.a. just a few minutes ago. it was back in early march when philadelphia's police commissioner announced that officer mendoza would be fired after a 30-day suspension. this was after apparently the officer in question, mendoza, ne had determined that he had used an excessive use of force in the shooting, a shooting that happened on march 1st, the evening of march 1st when officer mendoza was apparently in an unmarked car in philadelphia. and at some point the rear view window was shot out. he gave chase and when he gave chase, he ended up firing his weapon and shooting sedario. just a few minutes ago, kate, the d.a., who was very specific during this press conference basically said this young man who was 12 years old, basically said he was on the ground in a push-up posit

to bring us up to speed on the investigation, let's bring in cnn national correspondent jason carroll. been here from the beginning. what's the latest in the investigation? >> as you know, boris, it took a lot of pushing first of all to get authorities to finally admit that mistakes had been made. parents were out here asking, pleading with officers, saying why are you waiting to go in there? those of us in the media were out here asking some of the same questions. why were you waiting? then yesterday finally we got some answers from steven mccraw, the texas department of public safety who basically explained why this incident commander, the person who was in charge, why he decided to make this decision to wait. saying that basically he had decided it was no longer an active shooter situation. that it instead had turned into a barricaded subject. and because that decision was made, they waited to breach the door. what they did was they waited to get tactical backup. and waited to get the keys from a janitor. >> decision was made that this was a barricaded subject situation. there was

before that, i want to bring in cnn's jason carroll for the latest we know about what actually happened yesterday at the school behind us. jason, there is still a lot we don't know. >> reporter: absolutely, but there is some we do know. some of this starting last week. that's when this 18-year-old gunman legally purchased two firearms, two semiautomatics, one on may 17th, the other on may 20th. he also purchased ammo last week. so that information coming in. all of this, anderson, as investigators are still trying to piece together a motive. >> these kids will never attend school again. >> reporter: tonight, authorities revealed new details about what unfolded as the gunman entered robb elementary school and opened fire on a fourth grade classroom. >> the subject was able to make it into the school as the governor reported. he went down a hallway, turned right, then turned left and there was two classrooms that were adjoining. that's where the carnage began. >> reporter: law enforcement estimate the shooter was inside the school for 30 minutes. >> border patrol, consolidated isd officer

as jason carroll reports now for us, top officials and family members of the victims of course

jason carroll, thank you so much as always. while we learn more about the response from officers outside the school, we're also hearing accounts from inside the classroom where these children and their teachers were killed. a cnn producer spoke to an 11-year-old who was inside class when this started. listen to how this survivor made it out alive. >> she said she was scared the gunman was going to come back and kill her, so her friend was laying dead next to her, and she put her hands on her body and in her blood and then smeared that blood all over her own body so that she could play dead if the gunman came back. and then one of her friends was shot, injured but alive still and was screaming out of the pain. and they were scared the gunman would come back, so mia and a friend put their hand over this little girl's mouth to try to muffle her scream until the police came. >> let's get back to cnn's christi paul right now. imagine being the parent of a child that survived this going to be impacted forever. how do you overcome the

i'm here, victor, with jason carroll and shimon prokupecz right now. let me bring them in. jason, i know you talked to some of those parents who are there. >> right, when you see that video and you see so much of that frustration and anger on the part of the parents, i spoke to one man, victor luna, his son is in the fourth grade, he was one of those people, the minute he heard about the shooting, like so many other people in this area, rushed right here to the scene. he says he was standing there for minute upon minute after minute and was just frustrated with what he called the inaction of some of those officers who were out there. he said that what he wanted to do was take matters into his own hands. i want you to listen to what he told us about what he told an officer as he was waiting there. do you remember what you were saying to the officers? what others were saying to the officers? >> i told one of the officers myself, if they didn't want to go in there, let me borrow a gun and a vest and i'll go in there myself. to handle it up. and they told me, no. >> how does th

jason carroll, thanks so much. we do not want to get some e exerper tease now from former boston police commissioner ed davis. he's with us right now. thank you so much for sharing part of your weekend with us. as you heard officials here in uvalde have acknowledged the incident commander made the wrong mistake. he made a decision to not breach the classroom sooner. you've called that an abject failure. i'm wondering what reasons could you imagine that that incident commander would have decided this was a paracaded suspect situation as opposed to an active shooter scenario. >> good morning, boris. so these are -- these are horrible questions to be looking at in a tragic situation. the chaos of these events and misinformation most likely will play a role in this when all of the facts come out. it's impossible to be definitive about exactly what happened. in a situation like this the commanding officer should be very close to the scene. we don't know where the chief was at that particular time. we do know a sergeant

jason carroll, thank you very much for sharing that. of course lexi is not the only young life. jose flores jr., he was 10 years old. what we know about him is he loved baseball and video games, and his father said he was always full of energy and ready to play until the night. and an amazing big brother to his younger siblings. there is 10-year-old uziah garcia. his grandfather described him as the sweetest little boy that i've ever known calling him a great kid, full of life, loved anything with wheels and video games. he leaves behind two sisters. s behind two sisters. javier lopez, just 10 years old. his mom told "the washington post," hajavier was funny, neve serious. that smile i will never forget. he always cheered everyone up. she had just taken this photo of him, also making the honor roll at that very same ceremony and not realizing that would be the last time she saw her son alive. he said he really couldn't wait to go to middle school. there was 10-year-old amarie garza. her father posted this message online, quote, thank you, everyone for the prayers and trying to h