camera. she did agree to speak with my partner cnn producer nora. you were in with mia and her mother, i want to make clear her mother was there the whole time. what did she tell you? the 11-year-old mia was in that fourth grade classroom that we have heard so much about with ms. garcia and ms. morales. they were watching lilo and stitch, it was the end of the school year, and she said one of her teachers got the email that there was a shooter in the building and went to the door and he was right there. they made eye contact. the shooter made eye contact with the teacher. with the teacher and he shot out the window in the door. and then mia says it just happened all so fast, he backed the teacher into the classroom and he made eye contact with the teacher, again, looked her right in the eye and said goodnight and then shot her and killed her. he said goodnight before he shot her. he said goodnight. then it happened pretty fast after that as well. he started open fir
officials say they had to hold the parents back because of the volatile nature of the situation. and this morning, we are learning the identities of more young victims. leyla salazar, who was 11-years-old, she loved to run, film tiktok videos and dance and ten-year-old alicia ma am rez wanted to draw. she wanted on the an artist. for many of the young survivors, it left them shaken and scarred. here s how a 2nd grader described his ordeal. i was praying thinking what is this happening? i have the fear of guns now. because i m scared someone might shoot me. and again, we are beginning to hear from more children who were inside the school and nearby classrooms. our adrian is here with me now. adrian, you sat down with a young boy who was in one of those classrooms who heard it all going on. tell us about him. reporter: he described the gunshots as loud, louder than what he had heard before, pouring out that his grandfather is a gun owner and he says the sound of this ri
is facing intense scrutiny. there are new questions about the time line here, here s what we know. the 18-year-old gunman was not confronted by law enforce. before he entered the building. this is something that contradicts initial police accounts. that was something we were told over and over initially. he was. he did encounter a student resource officer. that actually wasn t true. officers at the scene were calling for backup as shots were being fired inside the school, we learned a. source close to a teacher who was inside confirms the school was not on lockdown before the gunman entered, even though he had fired shots at two people near the school. we are talking a few tenths of a mile from the school. a full 12 minutes earlier. frantic parents arrived at the scene where police were and they were held back by police.