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this is according to two senior law enforcement officials. authorities say that students were trapped inside the classroom with the gunman and repeatedly called 9-1-1 as local officers waited in the hallway for nearly an hour to take action. following days of confusion and misinformation, we are getting the clearest timeline yet. around 11:30 am, the shooter crashed his car. a 9-1-1 car was placed. shooting began outside of the school. within minutes, the scooter entered the school and fired off 100 rounds. by 12:03 pm, nearly 20 officers stood in a hallway outside of the classrooms. it was not until 12:50 that the classroom was reached using cues from the gender. by 12:58, the shooter was killed. some of the children who survived the massacre are describing what they saw, while desperately waiting for help to arrive. we were watching a movie. we heard banging. my teacher got up to see what it was was. she said, oh my god, he has a gun. when he started shooting we hid ....
but first we want to start with the breaking news out of buffalo new york. law enforcement sources say at least seven people have been killed in a mass shooting at supermarket tops. police say the shooter in the incident is in custody, into rifles have been recovered from the scene. including one with a racist term etched onto the weapon. police are investigating whether the suspect was motivated by white supremacist ideology, and may have livestreamed the incident. let s go now to my and msnbc, kylie richard louis with the latest information. yeah we are getting a lot of different occasions right now. this is common at this stage. we are about two and a half hours into this incident. in buffalo new york as you described we have a tops supermarket where this incident happened. and from what you described and what we are learning, yes the suspect from what we are hearing right now, walking and wearing a military style gear. we don t know whether that is pants, whether ....
Was a school resource officer that is charged with a crime because he did not go in. it is a different situation. this is a judgment from the commander on the scene, a man named pete tara dunnville. if it turns out that the man knew very well that there was all of these 9-1-1 calls from the children begging for help inside, and he still decided to help, a lot of people will reasonably help would recently asked the question, can there be a criminal investigation here, alicia. thank you both. i want to bring in msnbc terrorism analyst jim kafanov. he is a retired atf special agent in charge and former hostage negotiation jim. we heard police admit to a string of mistakes that cost lives, including driving by the shooter, not breaching the classroom he was in with students. where was the breakdown in communication that happened? the officers were brave. 19 officers were in the hallway ....
The ground is doing the very same, as have their necks to gaiters there on the ground. let s go to jim kavanaugh know right now. msnbc law enforcement analyst. jim, we have a lot of a piece of information coming at the moment. but you know and what are you hearing from your sources? jim kavanaugh no, can you hear me? all right, jim kavanaugh is one of our analysts here. retired atf special agent in charge. former hostage negotiator for the atf. jim kafanov, can you hear me? jim yeah, richard you ve got me here. perfect, we can now hear you jim. you know, we have been in these situations before, jim, and we are getting varying pieces of mid information. one of the suspect was killed. now we are hearing that he is in custody. when you know and what do you hearing because i know you also have your own sources they re both in the local level as well as on the federal level. you know, for all ....
As what exactly long forsman is doing on the ground. jim, if you can standby we are of course going to continue. do you have a quick one or two sentences here? i am sorry, say it again? jim do you have the last one or two sentences that you re trying to get in? no i think we have to find it with the detectives glean from this and whether or not there is going to be any federal charges. it is just a really horrible scene, a lot of heartache in buffalo. yeah. always appreciate, you jim kafanov, msnbc analyst. appreciate your perspective as well as the information. again, at least seven dead, rev. from what we understand that he and msnbc s able to confirm. of course there are many reports right now, rev, in terms of what is happening. we ll of course keep you updated right here on msnbc. a little bit later in the, our ref, but for now back to you. well, we will certainly be waiting for those updates. i know that area very well. we have a chapter in and i have been on the ....