there was a brave school district resource officer that approached him, engaged him at that time. there was not gunfire was not exchanged. reporter: but the department telling me this. was there a school officer on campus, and was that school officer armed? because that s what we ve been told. so it at this time, no, no. there was not an officer readily available, armed. no. was there an officer? no. why? nothing i can t answer that yet. i ll circle back with you. there is a 12-minute gap from when he crashes his truck to when he enters the school. 12 minutes. what happened in that 12 minutes? you have to understand, 11:30 is the information we have at this point. we got a crash and a man with a gun. then you have responding officers. that s the information we have. reporter: 4 minutes after the
abbott laid out some facts but he omitted some key facts. we did learn the basic time line, this began when the gunman shot his grandmother in the face as the governor put her and then took her truck and drove it to the school and crashed the truck near the entrance of the school and then ran in and you saw that image of him in black with a weapon. and that is where the confusion begins. because initially the texas department of public safety had said that an armed school resource officer engaged him on his way into the school. but yesterday the head of that department gave an entirely different account which raises fundamental questions. take a listen. there was a brave school district resource officer that approached him and engaged him and at that time there was not gunfire was not exchanged. he confronted him and wanted to find out, because he was he heard the accident and trying to check on that particular crash when he saw it.
and loved ones of the victims, including one family i spoke with late today. tonight amid the unbearable shock here, 19 elementary school students, two teachers all gunned down on the last week of school. i consider this person to have been pure evil. getting closer, gunfire. officials say the rampage began around 11 a.m. tuesday when the suspect posted on facebook he was going to shoot his 66-year-old grandmother whom he lived with inside this home she survived went to a neighbor to call police while authorities say he took off in her truck posting, i shot my grandmother. around 11:15 a.m., i m going to shoot an elementary school by 11:32 he was at robb elementary where police say he crashed the truck. there was a brave school
just ten years old killed with her cousin in the same classroom. her father joins me. and canceling the nra, i ll speak to a musician coming up, who just pulled out of a performance at the nra s annual convention which kicks off in just hours. let s go outfront. i m pamela brown in for erin burnett, outfront tonight, confusion and anger as serious questions grow over the police response to the massacre inside rob elementary school in uvalde, texas, today, officials laying out a timeline of the shooting that killed 19 students and two teachers. government entered the school without any resistance and would take an hour before tactical teams arrived and killed the suspect. also a crucial detail from that press conference today was very different than what we were told yesterday and again this morning. there was a brave school