deadly weekend in america. since friday there have been ten mass shootings across the country, no area immune from the violence of course. the shootings happened at high school graduation parties in south carolina and texas, at a funeral outside a church in kentucky, multiple shooters then firing into a crowd on a busy street in philadelphia killing three people. and in tennessee shots rang out at a nightclub, all told 15 people were killed, dozens more hurt in these mass shootings. the gun violence archive now says there had been 246 mass shootings in the united states this year. the math not fully calculating the pain. 33 of those that we are talking about here just since the uvalde school massacre nearly two weeks ago. cnn s polo sandoval is live in philadelphia starting us off at this hour. another city in pain, another investigation into deadly gun violence now under way. polo, what are you learning? kate, unlike those calculated and planned massacres we have seen rece
not engage the shooter, earlier. have a listen. why was this decision made, to not go in, and rescue these children? the on scene commander, considered a barricaded subject, there is time, and no more children at risk. of course, it was not the right decision, it was the wrong one, period. parents of the victims, outraged, understandably, at these missteps. with one father, telling cnn, he wonders if his daughter, and others, may have survived if authorities acted more quickly. we now know the names, and faces, of all 21 live shot to cut short, with funerals begun next week. this is going in and lavandera picking up the story. i was misled. i am livid about what happened. explosive reaction from the texas governor, to new reactions from law enforcement response in the days of the evolving shootings. the information i was given turned out, in part, to be inaccurate. i am, absolutely, livid about that. it is imperative that they re trying to happen, and is getting d
anyone, it never happened. it took up to an hour for the gunman killed during that time police were negotiating with the suspect keeping his pinned but later said they didn t know his exact location for immediate take down and video outside the school show parents pleading with police to enter and save the kids and one woman put in handcuffs and another tackled by police and thrown to a ground and a third pepper sprayed. as a father i would have just went in. i don t need nobody tell me to go in defend harmless children, why wait? cnn jason carol begins our coverage timeline how the massacre unfolded. 11:21 tuesday i just shot my grandma in her head he wrote to a girl online. it was the start of a shooting spree that would leave 19 students 25and 2 teachers dead. seconds later wrote i m going to go shoot up an elementary school right now and took off in his 66-year-old grandmother truck and crashed into a ditch and two minutes later a 911 call reported the wreck and gun
why officers failed to enter the school while the attacker was still firing. those shots audible from the outside. here s what we do know at 11:8 a.m. central time, the suspect crashed into a ditch near the school. there is a picture there. he exited the vehicle and fired at two witnesses across the street. at 11:40 a.m., he entered through the west side of the building. there is the video there. two minutes later a teacher sent a text message saying there was an active shooter at the school. it was not until 11:43 that school officials announced they were under lockdown, one minute later, officers entered the school, were shot and and retreated as they called for further forces to join them. it was not until 12 n. 44, one hower later, a tactical team of border patrol uvalde police department made entry and finally shot the suspect. there are several questions, hard questions. understandable ones that have yet to be answered. this morning, inside the classroom with these chil
even though he was firing shots outside for some 12 minutes, there are so many unanswered questions. here is what we do know. 11:28 a.m. central time the suspect crashed his truck into a ditch near the school. he exited the vehicle, fired at two witnesses across the street. at 11:40 a.m. the gunman entered the school through an unlocked door on the west side of the building. four minutes later, officers entered the school, received gunfire then retreated from the building as they called for backup. it was not until an hour later, full hour, 12:44 p.m. local time that a tactical team made entry and killed the suspect. this morning we are learning more about just what was going on inside that classroom. mia got some blood and put it on herself to pretend she was dead. she had bullet fragments in her back. that poor little girl and so many stories just hike it. we ll have more on mia s story in a moment. let s begin though on the investigation. cnn crime and justice correspo