14 minutes that it took for that school shooting to elapse, the shooter fired 126 rifle rounds and 26 rounds from a handgun 152 rounds all together in 14 minutes. to honor the three little kids and the three school staff who were murdered in their school monday last week and to demand legal change to stop gun violence. literally thousands of tennessee students walked out of their classes today. and at some schools, they left their classrooms and they rallied outside their school that happened in a bunch of different schools in tennessee at some schools today they did a walk-in instead of a walk-out. meaning they left class but then they came together in a school auditorium to talk about the problem. by the thousands, what students did today in tennessee is they went to the tennessee state
that and how it s being presented in court? i think one of the key moments coming up in this trial is the forensic evidence involving the blackout cartridge and whether or not the casings associated with that rifle round lines up with other rifle rounds and on the property shot at different times and as we know neither the shotgun nor the rifle that was used in the murders was found. can t find it. so what the prosecution is trying to do is to say that the cartridge rifle casings found by the wife s body match but they haven t found the gun and that s subject to a very difficult cross-examination when the state presents the expert testimony which i m sure it s coming up in the next several days. how difficult of a case is this when you have no direct witness, no camera evidence as you mentioned no weapon and no
explain what that is. that s deputy pruitt. one of the deputies i supervise and instructed him to put up crime scene tape to include that vehicle just so we put up crime scene tape to try to keep people out of the immediate crime scene area to preserve any possible evidence that s there. at this point in time had you noticed any evidence of firearms such as casings or spent shells or anything like that? as i was walking through. i could see shell casings particularly around maggie s body. a shell casing like a rifle or pistol. they appeared to be rifle rounds. could you tell what type of ammunition at that point in time? i could tell they appeared to be rifle. that s about it. you weren t stopping to collect those you were managing the scene as you described it for us. that s correct.
than 100 rounds of ammunition. now, police say he only fired from the rifle and they found 24 rifle rounds at the scene of the shooting. and then ten rounds from that good samaritan elisjsha dicken. and police say he engaged this gunman, the good samaritan did, from quite a distance and was able to neutralize him in under two minutes, likely saving lives in the process. and it is why the police chief, the mayor, the governor and many more in this area are hailing him as a hero. omar jimenez, cnn, greenwood, indiana. it has been more than four years since the terrifying school shooting in parkland, florida. and now the sentencing phase of that trial is under way. families are once again hearing what happened that day as prosecutors describe the gunman as cold, calculated, manipulative and deadly.
is that just a last-ditch effort? what is that about? cs gas is what we re talking about. it can be used in situations to debilitate somebody who s a barricaded subject to kind of distract them and render them incapable of returning fire. is it deadly? no? it s not deadly. it can induce pretty serious reactions in people. i m not sure how it would work on a classroom full of, you know, fourth graders. you can only imagine that they were considering, i guess, some sort of plan in which they would enter the gas. i don t think it was ever deployed. i think it ended up being time wasted. why would you deploy cs gas? this is an active shooter. i spoke to some of those kids who had just been fired on, 100 round of ar-15 style rifle rounds. i want to pause because