All right. All right. All right. All right. So whether you watching this live or you watching this on the replay, I appreciate you for checking in with your boy. Time is one of the most important things that we have. So I never take it for granted that we actually able to spend some time together. Look. Damn. I had to put my my AC's in, man. [laughter] I waited till the last. It's like 80 something out, man. I said, "Wait, hold on." I just went for my walk, came back. I'm like, "Oh, wait, hold on. I got to put my AC's in quick, man. It's that time. It's that time. The weather is getting right. So, today, you know, Diane did mention something. She said, "Listen, we know the real reason why we starting early." She said, "The Knicks is on." You know what I'm saying? Yes, the Knicks is on tonight. And you know, I do typically I don't typically watch the first half. I watch the second half of the games. But we going to go. We going to go. this this video is still going to be a while, but I will probably be able to catch the fourth quarter. Okay, [laughter] so anyways, um in honor of the Knicks, you know what I'm saying? No ads tonight. All right, if you watching this on the replay, sorry, you got ads. Okay, but [laughter] for y'all tonight, there's no ads. You know what I'm saying? If you see a ad, it ain't me. It's YouTube. I got ads off this video. Okay, the Knicks is playing tonight. Okay, we here. So, anyway, we got a video. Oh, let me see. Wait, hold on. Let me see who in the building. I ain't even get to see who in the building. Let me pull a chat up. Hold on. Hold on. See, pop out chat a lot. Okay. Yeah, let's see who in the building. Okay, let me see some. Okay, we got Sher, we got Wanda, Casey, Diane, Sandy, Eli, who else we got here? Nicole Blue. Okay, now what's going on, y'all? So, yeah, let's go. Let's get into it, man. Let's get into it. I waited days. This video came out a week ago, man. You know, it came out six days ago. Oh, I've been waiting a while to watch this, man. So, anyway, we got a video from Police Insider and the title of the video is the biggest police failure in American history. Okay, tragedy. All right, let's get into it. Let's um let's see what they actually talking about. >> We also met a cosmetologist. All right, she was wellversed in mortuary makeup. That's the task of making the victims appear as peaceful and natural as possible for their open casket viewings. These bodies were very different. They needed much more than makeup to be presentable. They needed extensive restoration. Why? Due to the exceptionally large exit wounds of an AR-15 rifle. Most of the body so mutilated that only DNA test or green converse could identify him. May 24, 2022, 2 days before the end of the school year at Rob Elementary, children were receiving their hard-earned awards in the school cafeteria, surrounded by friends and family. Some of them who had not received any awards throughout the year had waited for this day for a long time. >> Citizenship goes to Chloe Torres and Jordan Olivarez. Let's show off our nice awards right there. Face Miss Guzman back here in the back. >> The children had planned to watch movies in their classrooms after the ceremony and celebrate their awards with a pizza party. No one could have imagined that within an hour the school would become the site of one of the deadliest [music] massacres in American history. >> Hey, let him go. Let him go. >> GO, GO, GO, GO, GO. MAKE A HOLE. Make a hole. MAKE A HOLE. THE FIRST ONE. >> And what made the tragedy even worse was the fact that officers were literally passing time while the killer was shooting innocent children in those classrooms. >> Everything is everything's closed. Like the the the kids are not in there. >> We've spent weeks >> Wait, hold on. What the hell is so funny? Wait, what they laughing at? Did they say the officers is passing time as the as he's inside shooting and these guys is just chilling? Oh no. This ain't Oh nah. These officers ain't a part of the actright crew. I don't know what these where these guys. Oh no. >> Everything is everything's closed. Like the the the kids are not in there. We've spent weeks trying to assemble all the body cam videos that have been released on the internet along with phone video recordings and unseen clips that reveal the true horror that unfolded that day. After the awards ceremony ended at 11:00 a.m., some children left with their parents while others stayed back to celebrate the day with their classmates and teachers. They exited the cafeteria, entered the west building, which housed all the fourth graders, and settled into their classrooms to watch movies. At the same time, about half a mile away from the school, an 18-year-old got into an argument with his grandmother and fed up with her calling him a failure, shot her in the face before leaving the residents in her truck, armed with two AR-15 style rifles in approximately 1,657 rounds of ammunition, which he had purchased as a gift for his 18th birthday recently. The video you are about to see shows officers responding to their residents. There's nobody else in there. It's just her. >> Okay. Who Who did this to you? >> Who's your [laughter] grandson? Damn, man. >> Keep pressure. Just keep pressure on it. >> The bullet had penetrated the grandmother's jaw and completely damaged the right side of her face. She somehow managed to walk to a neighbor's house and ask them to call 911. But she had no idea what her grandson was planning to [music] do just 10 minutes before officers arrived at the residence. He had already driven toward Rob Elementary School and crashed the vehicle into a ditch on the south side of the campus. The loud crash alerted employees in a nearby funeral home who came out to check on the driver. But when they got out about 50 ft from the crash site, they could not believe what they were seeing. >> As I approached him, as I yelled out to him and say, "Hey, Mr. I said, "Sir, are you okay? Do you need some help?" As I'm walking across the street, um, I heard my coworker yell out, "Hey, watch out. He has a gun." And I'm like, "Gun?" I'm like, "What gun are you talking about? I couldn't I couldn't see a gun." And he just raised it and he aimed it towards it towards us like in this this sense. And that's when I realized that it was an actual uh gun that he had in his hands. >> These, >> okay, if you are ever in this situation, right? And you never know what life has in store for you, right? But when you when you are running away from a situation like that, you don't run straight. Do not run straight because even though you're a moving target, your area is still the same. You want to run run straight, but you want to weave weave. You know what? It makes it a lot harder for them to, you know, figure it out. You know, eventually they'll be able to figure, okay, he's going to go this way or whatever, but that's a lot more difficult than you just running straight. If you just run straight, your ass is grass. You know, you do not want to. You definitely have to weave. And I get it. You know, people have never been in situations or never practiced things like that. Never, you know, and adrenaline is going and but you at that moment, you got to think about what's the best chance of my survival. And it's not running straight. You have to weave. >> Employees were not the only ones witnessing the horror unfolding in front of them. A staff member from Rob Elementary had come out moments earlier, thinking someone had suffered a heart attack and crashed their vehicle into the ditch. As she exited the building, she propped open the northwest door to prevent it from locking behind her, a decision that police would later use to place much of the blame on her for the shooting. She then dialed 911. >> Anybody counting 911? >> Yes. There was just an accident right there behind Rob's school. Behind Rob? Yes, they ran into the ditch. What? How common vehicle? >> Pickup truck. It's a pickup truck. Oh my god, they're running. I don't know why. Oh my god, he has a gun. >> If I can have you around the 715 Old Civo Road, have a one vehicle accident. Why pickup truck crash in the ditch? Have a caller advising male subject have a gun. >> Shots fired. Shots fired. Within seconds, the shooter climbed out of the ditch and jumped the school fence, completely unfazed by the crash and began walking toward the parking lot. He left one of his rifles and a few fully loaded magazines in the truck, carrying only the DDM4 V7 rifle along with around 54 magazines, each loaded with 30 rounds. >> Did he say 54 magazines? left one of his rifles and a few fully loaded magazines in the truck carrying only the DDM4 V7 rifle along with around 54 magazines each loaded with 30 rounds. >> He's jumping in the schoolyard man. He just jumped over the fence. He's running towards the school. He's wearing black. Please, please. >> Yes, sir. We have the school units heading out that lane elementary. One of the school coaches, Miss Silva, who was standing near the pavilion, saw him approaching the West building and firing rounds into the air. >> What is that? >> Hey, what is that? >> She immediately alerted the school office about the shooting and ordered the third graders who were playing outside into lockdown. By then, officer Adrien drove onto the school campus and headed toward the pavilion after mistaking another coach running into the building with several children for the shooter. And in doing so, he passed [music] the actual shooter, who would quickly hidden behind vehicles in the parking lot. The shooter then fired random shots toward the pavilion and began walking along the west side of the building, firing into classroom windows. [music] As soon as I said, "Get down. Get down." He started shooting in my classroom window. And so we all took cover under a built-in table that is on the opposite side of the classroom, out of line of sight. When he started shooting, I was standing up and I fell to the ground and debris was just I don't know where the bullets went or anything. I just know debris was falling on top of me and I started just crawling [music] on my stomach underneath um the countertop. I could hear kids whispering and praying to themselves. I could hear them trying to comfort their friends. >> Minutes before the shooter began firing at the classroom windows. Miss Amelia had walked back inside the building and kicked the rock away from the door, closing it behind her. She then began alerting children and staff in the hallway to go inside and lock their rooms. >> Shooting. WHY HAVEN'T THEY COME? THE KIDS ARE RUNNING. THERE'S A GUY WITH A GUN RIGHT BEHIND THE CAMERA. GET IN YOUR ROOM. GET IN YOUR ROOM. In a matter of seconds, the shooter was going to approach the westside main door and try to enter the building. One of the responding officers, Sergeant Daniel Coronado, advised shutting down the school over the UPD radio. The school principal initiated an emergency lockdown alert using the Raptor emergency system, but it did not reach every employee because of poor Wi-Fi. There were other huge problems everybody had overlooked. Flaws in the way the school had been designed that would leave the staff and children easily accessible to the shooter. There were three unguarded entry points to the building from the west, east, and south sides. And at that point in time, all the classrooms along the south hallway except room 110 were occupied by teachers and children who had closed their doors. But all of those doors, including the westside main door, could only be locked from the outside using a key. In addition to this, every >> what you can only with with the increase of school shootings that have happened. Listen everybody know like throughout the years it has been more and more and more of this type of stuff going on and you can only lock the door from the outside that is useless. I get it right. You're probably don't want you know someone you don't want to lock the door. You don't want to have the ability to lock the door on the inside or whatever in case you know somebody is want to lock the door and do some weird stuff or whatever the case may be. But that goes upon the, you know, the the hiring process. Don't hire weirdos. You know what I mean? Stuff like that. But you should be able to lock it from inside and outside. That don't That's something very simple. That is Oh man, this is bad. This is bad. Let's see here. Oh, we got a couple teachers in the building. Yeah, you guys train for these. It This is a The school is so I think schools is is very vulnerable in general, you know, just because even if you train for it, right, and you you can hide under your desk and this and that or whatever, man. If somebody gets in there, you are stuck. Okay? You're literally stuck. However they get in, now you can make it a little bit more difficult for for them to get in, right? But if someone gets in, they are at the entrance of the door and everybody else is just at their mercy. You're trapped in there. It Woo! This This is terrible, man. This is terrible. >> Two adjacent classrooms were connected by another door in the middle, which could be used to gain access to both rooms at the same time. These design flaws were going to work in the shooter's favor. And this is exact. >> Wait, wait, wait. Say what? They could get in the entrance of >> door could only be locked from the outside using a key. In addition to this, every two adjacent classrooms were connected by another door in the middle, which could be used to gain access to both rooms at the same time. >> Oh boy. >> These design flaws were going to work in the shooter's favor. >> And this [clears throat] is exactly why he was going to enter the school without any hindrance. Who that? >> One of the children from room 110 was inside the bathroom and came out seconds after the shooter passed it. The gunman knew exactly what he was going to do as a part of his plan, which we'll get to soon. He was slowly approaching rooms 111, which [music] contained 11 students and one male teacher, and 112 containing 22 students and two female teachers, both of which were in the southern part of the hall. One of the teachers in room 112, Miss Irma Garcia, in an act of immense bravery, tried to lock the classroom from the outside to protect the children, unaware that the shooter had spotted her. We were told that we were going to go on a lockdown. So my friend did the normal thing, you know, went over to turn the TV off and then Miss Garcia went to go lock the door from outside. She heard the gunshots and she still tried to lock it. She couldn't find the right key. So she was trying to lock it and then right when she found the right key, she was about to close it. He had already got in and he grabbed the door from her hand. She ran over to us, sat down, and started covering my friend. She started saying no because he said you'll die. And he shot my teacher, Miss Garcia and Miss Valas. Think he made it to the building, guys. you know. Oh, I was just I was just going to give Lil Man credit. I ain't going to lie. And then I just see the edit. Um the sound of children screaming has been removed. Okay. cuz I I I I thought the kid, you know, the kid that was in the hallway when he heard it and I'm like, man, that's a that's a smart kid to to just run without without saying anything, you know, because if you say something that's going to draw attention to you, but okay, they edited it out. >> They were telling all the kids to go um behind their desk and they were protecting them. The two teachers were in the front and uh in front of the students >> after shooting the children and the two teachers in room 112. The shooter was about to enter room 111 where the teacher, Mr. Arnulo Reyes, had been updating grades on his computer and had just been alerted by the loud gunshots as well as the heavy bullet damage the walls separating the two classrooms. He was one of many employees who would not receive the Raptor alert due to bad Wi-Fi. >> The sounds got louder, like I said, and I was still sitting there behind my desk. And I had a student come and ask me what's going on. And I told her, I said, "I don't know what's going on." I told my kids to go ahead and get under the table where we had um where we've always practiced to go when we're on lockdown. [music] and I uh got off from my my desk area and was going around to hide from view. That is when I um well looked at my door and that's where I saw him. This is a rough one. I'm not going to lie, guys. >> At me. He hit me in my arm. And then after I fell on to the ground, he came around and he shot the kids. I don't know. Is there anyone in the building? >> I'm not sure. I'm not sure. >> 71 Valley, I've been advised that there's a woman that's been shot in the head off of Dia Street. Woman shot in the head off of Dia Street by a uh a known subject. Slowly, dispatch began getting overwhelmed with multiple calls from around the neighborhood and from officers reporting incident details. In the middle of which operators received another call from someone trapped inside the building at around 11:35 a.m. The caller whispered, "Help me." and did not respond after that. The call ended after 44 seconds. Due to the commotion over radio traffic, the information about this call was never relayed to the onground officers. In a later investigation, it was found that multiple children, including 10-year-old Amory, were trying to call 911 from inside room 112, but the shooter spotted them and began firing at them continuously. GUYS, BE CAREFUL. HE MIGHT BE IN THAT BUILDING. OKAY, you >> are saying that he's in the building on THE >> OH, SHOTS [screaming] FIRED. >> GET INSIDE. >> GO, GO, GO. >> In the head laying on street. One female shot in the head. [ __ ] This hallway is so open, too. This damn guys can't even take cover for real. This [ __ ] is, >> man. This is a bad design. I ain't going to lie, >> SHOTS FIRED IN THE BUILDING. I GOT I HEARD SOMEBODY SAID SOMEONE SHOT IN THE HEAD. >> I DON'T KNOW. THAT WAS >> another door. That door. >> Watch that door. Watch that door. >> I can't break. Somebody can break. Careful, guys. Shot fire line up. >> Light up. >> Hey, we're going in. We're staying here. What are we doing? Hey, we need Hey, we need crowd control. >> What's going on here? What fueled the ongoing confusion even more was that the Uvaldi Consolidated Independent School District or UCISD police chief Pete Arendondo who was supposed to take control of command according to the active shooter protocols had left his police radio as well as his campus radio in the car because he felt they would have made him slower while running. He had no idea what this blunder was going to cost him and the city. I can't see him. I can't go. All right. See the the design of this even the hallway is bad. And now you know you school teachers look at the next time y'all go to school. I Hey listen, I know summertime coming up. Y'all winding down. I get it. But even right here with this door with this door, right? the door is wide open like the double doors or whatever. Even if they designed it to narrow it a little bit more so that way there's a little bit more wall space so people could duck behind and get cover would be a little bit better of a design. I know there's not much you can do for a hallway, right? You know, a hallway is a hallway, but little things like that because these officers are just in the hallway sitting ducks. There's no cover at all. You don't have no, you know, at least if you in a shootout in in the street and stuff like that, you could duck behind cars and you know, you have some sort of There's nothing here. And where's the They don't have school police. Where's the school police? Like from the beginning. Don't each school have like a a officer? You know what I mean? Like damn. >> Am I bleeding? >> Am I bleeding? Am I bleeding? My >> look at this. They just out. >> He's He's sitting in the classroom. Yeah. He got me, right? You okay? >> Yeah. You okay? Is >> he in there? >> He's in the class. >> You want to go in there? No. Cuz what if he comes around? >> All right. [snorts] Talk to you, >> dude. I got shots fired. We're going to be in the uh the building >> the west side. >> Dude, we got to get in there. >> GPS is sending the people. >> We got to get in there. He's shooting. We got to get in there. >> News of the threat had spread quickly and all the other schools in the area were placed on lockdown. >> Lock down. Lock lights and out of sight. HEAD OUT. SEE, AND THIS IS WHAT I MEAN, RIGHT? There has to be something built within these classrooms that is a legit hiding place, you know, like a either a camouflage wall or something that's bulletproof. It's going to cost a lot of money and I get it. cities is not going to want to but pay it. But it that hiding behind the desk [ __ ] is not that's not going to work. Okay, that little wood desk ain't going to work. He going to pop the teacher in the head and walk right around there and just and it's sad it you know something has to be done. >> We're in lockown, guys. Yeah. I mean, >> a request for a SWAT team was made by Chief Aaron Dondo, but the officers at both ends of the hallway were highly experienced and had decades of training that emphasized not waiting to stop an active shooter. In fact, Sergeant Canales was the leader of the SWAT team, while Lieutenant Martinez and Sergeant Coronado had also received SWAT training and could have barged in. But from this moment on, they would make one poor tactical decision after another, creating massive confusion among responders and leaving the children trapped with the shooter, ultimately in a sense helping him take more innocent lives over the next hour. >> When he went to the when he went to the other >> over an hour >> was when a student from that classroom um said, "Officer, come in here. We're in here. And then I heard walks over there. And then I heard more shooting. That's what I mean by the wall being a little bit wider so you can have better coverage. that doorway there. It's going to be possibility. I think got me right. You >> okay? He got you. >> I don't know. 42. >> What? >> Hey, you know what? Take the window. >> Okay, guys. >> He's on inside this building. We have him contained. >> Hey, hold on. Hold on. Hold on. [snorts] >> This building right here, brother. This building. >> I don't have him. >> Hey, WATCH WINDOWS. WATCH WINDOWS. He's going to be [sighs] on the building on the west side of the property. Careful with the windows facing east right there. [sighs] >> What did he say about his wife? What? >> Hey, you know what? Take the window. >> Okay, guys. >> He's on inside this building. We have him contained. >> Hey, hold on. Hold on. Hold on. [snorts] >> This building right here, brother. This building. >> HEY, WATCH WINDOWS. WATCH WINDOWS. HE'S GOING TO be on the building. on the west side of the property. Careful with the windows facing east right there. >> Oh, dude. He's in my wife's classroom. Wow. >> My uncle GO 55. >> Hold on, guys. >> That building with the window any available unit. >> What? >> Go ahead and bring shields from the PD, please. >> What's up, bro? >> We might need help. We got shots fired at the school, bro. >> At the school. >> Yeah, guys inside the classroom right now. Iing. I'm bleeding from my ear. >> I don't know if yall come out here. Extra help. >> Yeah, the guy shooting. He's in the cash be shooting. Rob's cool [panting] for you. We can get an helpable. >> What the [ __ ] are these guys doing? They still in that same goddamn spot. >> By now, the officers knew exactly where the shooter was and should have made their way into the classroom, but most of them were under the impression that he was going to come out and continued to wait for him. >> What the [ __ ] >> 39 Valley, can you contact DPS as well? I'm sure they're aware. Get a Hilo above the area. Also, if they have any ballistic shields, make a location. >> Tiff where he's male subject's in the school on the west side of the building. Uh he's contained. We got multiple officers inside the building at this time. You believe he's uh barricaded in one of the one of the offices. I messed up. There's still shooting. >> Sergeant Coronado made another blunder by repeatedly using terms like contained and barricaded while describing the shooter situation. This led many to believe the suspect was >> That's what I'm saying. That's what I said earlier. I'm like, he's not contained. that that that's the that's the wrong term. That's the wrong term right now. If the officers and everybody know where he is, they need to, you know, I do agree that they do need to have shields. So everybody, you know, everybody, everybody on the force, they know where he's at. So there's no need to everybody to be everywhere else. Everybody, let's go. We got the shields. The shield guys is in the front. And y'all go. Y'all go get his ass. You know what I'm saying? There might be other bodies that you know might have to get dropped. You know what it You know, it's unfortunate, but you know, it is what it is. But they got to go get this guy. They're just sitting there in the hallway chilling like what the what's going on here? hiding alone in one of the rooms and that there was no immediate threat to the children. When in reality, this was still an active shooter situation where the gunman had already killed multiple children and would go on to take more lives as time passed. This is what he later told investigators about his actions. >> I mean, when when you have someone locked in a room and there's no rounds going off, you don't see any bodies. >> Yeah. >> You don't see any blood. you don't see anybody yelling, screaming for help. Those are motivators for you to say, "Hey, >> sure, >> get going. Move." But if you don't have that, then slow down. >> At the same time, teachers [music] and staff members who were in hiding were communicating through various internal channels, including school messaging apps and [music] emails. More than 100 rounds had been fired by the shooter within 5 minutes. And one of those rounds had passed through multiple walls and struck Miss Elsa Avala from room 109 in the abdomen as she was still securing her classroom. As she fell to the ground, she and her students tried to control the bleeding while she sent texts for help to her family and fellow staff members. >> You got 911. We have an active shooter at an active shooter. I don't have a window, but I could hear gunshots outside of my classroom. You could still hear men shot fire in the building. >> I don't know. There's been a lot a whole lot. And I got a message from somebody. Somebody is shot in another classroom. >> Somebody is shot in the classroom. I'm Okay. Can you tell me if it's the mine in another room? >> I'm sorry. What? >> Another classroom. I don't know. I don't know. Please. >> Okay. What room number? What room number? Can you tell me what room? >> I'm in room 102. >> I don't know where you're at right now. >> I got to go. I just can't let him hear me. Okay, I can't hear. It's okay. It's okay. I understand. Hurry. Hurry. Hurry. Oh boy. Do you believe you barricaded? This was the last time Lieutenant Martinez or anyone else would attempt to approach rooms 111 and 112 to rescue the children for a very long time. According to the Texas Active Shooter Protocols taught by Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training or Alert, the first goal of police should be to eliminate the threat, even if there is only one officer responding to the situation. And it explicitly states that a first responder unwilling to place the lives of innocent civilians above their own safety should consider another career field. Right then, at 11:40 a.m., Chief Arendondo called dispatch via his personal phone to report the shooter's location. But the way he spoke made it seem as though he was inside a room with a shooter, creating even more confusion. >> Hey, hey, this is Alongo. This is Alongo. Can you hear me? Can you hear me? This is an emergency right now. I've been inside the building with this man. He has an IR15. Is the teacher Is [music] the teacher with him in the classroom? >> He's in another classroom. She's in one or2. Another person possibly shot a classroom. They're not sure. >> Okay. So, we have him in a room. He's at AR15. He's shot a lot. He's in a room. He hasn't come out yet. We're surrounded, but I don't have a radio with me. So you let all the units know he's going to be in the shooters in one of the rooms. What room number, Pete? >> Yes, he's going to be in room 9, 10, 11, 12. He's either in room 111 or 112. >> And because he had left his radios in the car, he asked the dispatchers [music] to relay messages for him, which certainly wasn't the best strategy and was going to [music] lead to countless delays and orders. >> What other equipment do you need from the PD? Tiff for whatever we have. We're definitely going to need some flashers. Flashbangs if we have any. >> Is it going to be loud? [panting] >> I'm not sure, but we have a H hallogen tool. Break it. >> This is [ __ ] [ __ ] They all need to go. The whole [ __ ] delete the whole [ __ ] fire the whole police department and start over, man. This is [ __ ] This is crazy. got to be careful. We don't cross shot several times in the classroom. Okay. >> Miss's classroom. see if the class is in her right now or if they're somewhere else. >> Again, it's me's classroom. >> This radio message by Sergeant Canales was based on the calls and text messages being sent by Miss Ava Morelis to her husband, Officer Ruben Reyes. She had been severely shot and was pleading for him to come in and help her, saying she would die otherwise. But no one did anything. >> You know, if they're actually there, they're not where they're at. >> Description description. >> Yeah. We can't see him at all. >> Is there a window? >> Huh? >> Any windows in the building? >> We were We were at the front and he started shooting. The shadows went everywhere. >> Switch over to PD primary. Switch to PD primary. >> This guy is a coward of a husband, too, man. He's stuck between a rock and a hard place because one on one end his his wife just got cracked in the dome. Okay, his wife. Okay. Then on the other end, you trying to follow the orders of whoever the hell is in charge, but at some point somebody got to start moving. your wife just called you and told you, "Help. I'm going to die otherwise." And he kicked back. Yeah. With the boys like, "What the?" Now, I don't know if she survives this, but if she does survive this, you best believe there better be some divorce papers cuz yo, provide and protect. Okay? Like that. That's damn that's the that's the job of a listen we gonna get I'mma get into it a little bit whatever you know traditional roles you know obviously you know both husband and wife work and stuff like that whatever but you know God's provide you know what I mean if there's something hey something got to get done you know provide and protect okay protect THAT'S THE OTHER PART OF THIS protect you just go YOUR WIFE JUST TOLD YOU SHE GOT CRACKED IN THE DOME AND SHE GOING TO GET she going to die otherwise and you just la LIKE WHAT WHAT KIND OF [ __ ] IS THAT? >> GO AHEAD and see if you got the uh a mirror too. There should be a mirror there so that we can go ahead and look around corners here. >> Y'all want to walk with me so you can see the back? Which classroom is the second one? We got this name. >> The class should be in session. Miss >> 19 status. >> Oh no. >> LPD news. Alpena has just 401 stated he's got the shooter in room 1101. He's going to be armed with a rifle. Repeat. Armed with a rifle. >> These officers were trying to recover a black backpack lying on the ground outside room 102. But as they approached it, they decided the recovery was too risky and fell back toward the west entrance. >> Let's go back. I don't want to lose. I don't want to risk it. It was later found that the backpack had been dropped by the shooter while he was firing at the classroom windows from the outside and it contained dozens of loaded 223 round magazines which scared officers even more about approaching the classroom. >> Had anybody gone through that door? >> Yes, sir. >> He would have killed whoever it was. >> Yes, sir. >> I mean, we can only carry so many uh ballistic vests on you. That 223 round would have gone right through you and through the door. I mean, he was ready. >> Yes, >> I agree with that decision because in order for you to go get the bag, you're going in front of those those glass windows. I agree with that decision not to go get it. >> 412. I don't know what she said. >> 412. What class? >> 703. I'm going to give you a 28. That is going to be the suspect's vehicle. There's a kid in there. >> You have a lot of people pulling up on uh over here by the funeral home as well. >> Tiff have another have some officers that are available. Keep everybody back. You want to go all the way around? We're on a crossfire. >> Yeah, >> that's covering the windows. >> Yeah, exactly. They're exposed. Hey, watch it, bro. He's in that back room. He's popping shots off. He shot the windows out. He's in a back room on the on the far inside. There's >> a door that goes all the way across. I'm thinking so. I can't get out. According to Mr. Reyes, while he lay on the floor pretending to be dead, he could hear the shooter walking between the classrooms. But there was this moment when he came back into Mr. Reyes's room and walked toward him with the intention of shooting him again to make sure he was dead. >> He did approach me again. is that's when he um he came and he um tried to taunt me. He got some of my blood and splashed it on my face. Later on, he did come back and he shot me on the back. >> Even after being shot twice, first in his arm and second in his back, Mr. Reyes didn't lose consciousness and continued waiting for officers whom he could hear talking in the hallway. But the wait just kept getting longer and longer. >> Watch it. Watch them behind you. Go veg. >> Finally. Damn. They going in somewhere. Okay. >> Rifle. >> Ah, let's go. Hey, they need your the rifle. The rifle beer, bro. It's hot. >> Safe safe. >> I saw a teacher on the ground and I thought she tackled somebody. But when I came up, she was by her side. I just saw I saw her running and I claw the dust. I thought she tackled somebody. >> He's in a classroom right now. >> Yeah. With kids. >> Is there any way that classroom's closed, man? There's no way out. >> Uh I'm over here on the south side of that building that we're we have him in. Hey, get over here. >> If you can go through Geraldine and there's a parking lot, you should be okay. We got coverage over here on the on the west end of the building. >> No, she has tools. >> What do you need to do? >> 309. If you haven't already, get a hold of BP as well. >> Hey, you need to step back. That's what we're TRYING TO FIND OUT. STAY BACK. >> There we can try to do negotiations. There might be a window. Just to let you know, we do have a suspect that's been in the classroom. The windows are >> Hey J. >> Huh? Is this a stop? >> No, I don't know what this was. >> 309. We're attempting to locate contact. Some of the officers were still confused about whether the two classrooms were occupied, even though it had already been announced over the radio that the classes were in active session. Amid all of this, the shooter would go on to dip his fingers into one of the victim's blood and smear lol on a whiteboard in room 111, mocking the injured victims waiting for help. That would never come. No, I I just honestly thought that they were in the cafeteria cuz it was it seemed like all the lights were off and it seemed like it was really quiet. I didn't hear any screaming, any yelling. I literally didn't hear anything at all. You know, you know, and >> this police department got to be broke after all the lawsuits that they going to get. This is this is ridiculous, man. >> You know, you would think there was, you know, kids would be yelling and screaming. >> We couldn't hear the kids. We couldn't hear him shooting anybody or anything like that. Um, so I guess that's why, you know, they were waiting to make entry because we didn't know what was going on in there. It's just too quiet. For some reason, officers didn't know that the children and staff were simply following the lockdown protocols, which explicitly mentioned that everyone inside the classroom had to turn off the lights and stay as silent as possible. >> You have a team that you can stack and roll or no? >> We have one shield right here. >> We still need somebody on the south side. We still need somebody on the south side. >> He's on that aisle, but on the other side. >> Okay. >> On the other side. >> So, we're going through here. >> Yeah. This is good. >> Let's go. >> We're good there, guys. Hold up. Hold up. There's a door. Fatal funnel. We have officers on the inside. I'm worried of overcrowding in here, too. >> Let me get your camera off. >> I was charging. >> You're fine. You're fine. There's plenty of officers. >> All right. Where do you want me to go? >> Let's get this door uh opened up in case we need to do a fast exit or something like that. We pop this door open. >> Let me see if I can talk to him or what? >> No. >> You want to talk to him? >> Over here. >> He's not talking. He shot like 40 50 rounds at least. in there with the room. >> He's in there with the room with him. >> We all want to get in there, Jav. We all want to get in there. Trust me. >> Oh [ __ ] Oh [ __ ] She has shields. We She can't get through the traffic, though. She needs to get up here. >> Right there. >> I can't hear you, bro. >> Okay. Come on. Go, go, go. Open the door. Open the door. Go, go. I'm good. I'm good. Watch out. It's >> us. Careful. Careful. Check across. >> Get out of the hallway. >> They need to get out of the hallway. >> Kids in there with them. >> I don't know where she's at. >> I mean like kids. Anybody? >> We don't know. >> No. If you can't help with ground control on the outer perimeter, we have coverage all the way around the campus right now. >> The vort is supposed to come out. Vortex >> is already on the other end. >> We're we're covered right now. We can't have too many. Eddie, hey, >> we can move that. >> Hey, he's on the phone with Pete. Hold up. Hold up. Hold up. >> No, he's not. He's outside. >> Hey, buddy. >> What was the return on that 28? >> I was going to say it would be I was you know, >> Ranger should be coming out. Yeah, but we got vort. >> Be careful. >> Yeah, don't >> know. We're just saying the rounds can go right through. >> He has an AR either 111 or 112. >> But but Chief is making contact with him, right? >> Who? >> No, no one's made contact with him. >> Nobody on scene was clear on what was even going on. And all of this was happening because there was no solid chain of command. When according to alert standards, command is established by the first officer on scene and then transferred to a higher ranking officer who arrives afterward. In fact, in the district active shooter plan, which was partly written by Chief Pete Arendondo himself, it was mentioned that during an active shooting, the responsibility of setting up command lay with the UCISD police chief, that is himself. He should have taken control of the situation, but he had no radio with him to communicate with the numerous officers present inside the school. nor did he send anyone to retrieve one. He later claimed that he didn't feel like he was the one commanding officers that day. The inactivity of law enforcement was becoming evident to the parents waiting for their children outside, some of whom were even ready to barge in with their own guns. >> These cops are telling everybody to leave. Do everybody's here trying to pick up their kids. >> They're saying that the shooters in a new building. I don't know if they had a new building. funnel, man. Get in there. If you're going to get in the middle, >> look, they're just all parked and outside, man. They need to go in there. >> Get in. What the is the deal, dude? >> They're [ __ ] Oh, man. I'm going to I'm going to go >> for police department. >> Police department. >> Nobody. >> Ain't nobody in this one either. >> Look at that, bro. They're all in there. The cops ain't doing but standing outside. >> All the kids are inside the school and they're they're just standing the parks. Oh my god. >> Ma'am, police department. >> Police department. >> Check that. >> Ma'am, >> is the police >> police department? >> Yes. Go here. >> Okay. Okay. >> Okay. >> All the parents are going to the front. ALL THE PARENTS are going to the front. Just shoot them already. All our kids are in there. Like if they if they >> Man, I have my gun in my car. >> Do we have anyone that's hit on this side? >> Huh? >> Any other kids or anyone hit? >> No, we don't know anything about that. No kids are >> Everything is Everything's closed. Like the the the kids are not in there. >> This is pissing me off. I ain't going to lie. This is pissing me off. This is pathetic. This is You you you can't have faith in no police department like this, man. This is this is pathetic. I'm not going to lie. Bunch of cowards. The whole the whole thing. This is a disaster. Disaster. And you know what it is? It's because people don't expect it to happen to them. So they you could do all the training you want in the world or whatever the case may be. But when push come to shove, they don't expect it to happen. So they don't know what to do. You got the police chief who wrote the manual on this stuff or what to do. And he is the top he's the top of the food chain and it's supposed to trickle down. And because the top of the food chain is so messed up, no one knows what to do. And no one's got a set of nuts, honestly. Like really, like this guy said that his wife is messaging him. His wife is a teacher. SHE JUST GOT CRACKED IN THE DOME AND SAID, "YO, if nobody comes in here, I'm dead. No one got a pair OF NUTS. SOMEBODY GOT TO DO SOMETHING. We got kids. We got kids. We got kids in this room. >> In my opinion, Sandy says, "Uh, shy. What an instinct to protect the kids just kick in. Yes and no. And I'mma I'mma be honest about this, right? The reason I say yes and no is that in the in the real world. All right. Yes. You know, you would think that instincts to protect the children would just kick in, but the reality of the situation is is that if they're not your own, it would be tough for you to step into that. That's why I I personally expect more out of the guy who his wife is in there, you know what I mean? And stuff like that, right? Than the other ones that really do not. And and this is a this is a people not going to like what I got to say, but this is the reality of it. This it is what it is. I expect more out of that guy because he has a personal connection to whoever is inside of there versus everyone else. Yes, you being a good, you know, it's your job. It's your job to protect the kid to protect everybody, not just the kids to protect everybody. But in a situation like this where you're really scared, these officers are scared. They're, you know, they're, you could tell they're scared. So with with this situation, it's like you're scared and you also don't have an attachment, a personal attachment to whoever is being harmed. That's why I see a lot of the the PE guys is just laidback or whatever the case may be. So that's my take on it. You know, would would um would an instinct just kick in to protect the kids? Yes and no. You know, and um because somebody does have to you, unless it's your own, right? You would have if you got kids and something happened to your kid, you would have a there would be a difference between, you know, oh, this is my kid, like versus the same thing happening to somebody else's kid that you don't have an attachment with. There's a difference there, you know? That's why I'm really disappointed in the guy whose wife got cracked in the dome and she's asking for help or she going to die, you know. I'm really disappointed. He's He's a piss poor excuse of a husband. Not going to lie. Like this is just you not doing you not moving advances. Yo, listen. This guy's right in here with my wife. Like, let's go. Like, there's no emotion. There's no nothing. Like, if she if she lives or die, there's nothing. Like, you got to what the [ __ ] [ __ ] I got you here for? Like, you know what I mean? Like, damn. You a waste of this whole police department is a waste of [ __ ] air, man. They need to everybody at the top of the food chain got to go. Gotta go. The officers, it's like, you know, they're just following the orders of the guys above. So, the top of the food chain has to go. Piss poor job. >> Eyes on that room. Hey, eyes on kids in this room right here. Where's the teacher? >> Teacher. Where's your >> Oh, yeah. Eli says, "Uh, the teachers are more brave than the cops." Yes. Yes. And there's a more more of a of a, you know, even with that, there's more of a personal attachment there. You know what I mean? Those of you that are teachers throughout the year, you may not know this kid from a can of paint, right? But throughout the year, you grow to have an attachment with your students, you know what I mean? And stuff like that. So, there is a little bit more there. >> Try to get this open, this window open and exit out that window. >> You guys okay? I'm telling them to exit out the window. We don't want no cross, no nothing. >> Has anyone hit? Is anyone hurt? You're okay. You're okay. Stay calm. Okay. >> Hey, y'all guys, stay calm. Stay calm. >> Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Let's go. Let's Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. >> Frustrated by the delays, Officer Reuben wanted to do something. >> Wait, was that one kid from the beginning that ran in the bathroom? >> Teacher, >> where she at? Try to get this open. This window open and exit out that window. >> You guys okay? Tell them to exit out the window. We don't want no crossing, no nothing. >> Is anyone hit? Is anyone hurt? >> You're okay. You're okay. Stay calm. Okay, >> there you go. Guys, stay calm. Stay calm. >> Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. >> Wow. Frustrated by the delays, officer Ruben wanted to do something to help his injured wife and the children. But other officers on scene did not think it was a good idea. [laughter] >> Ruben. Ruben. Ruben. Ruben. She says she shot Johnny. That's what I've been waiting on. Show some [ __ ] emotion and passion. Okay. Okay. Okay, Reuben. Okay. Yeah, that's what I've been waiting on. That's what I've been waiting on. You tried, right? You You show There's some emotion there. There's some You have to follow order, though. That's what I've been waiting on. This is the guy I've been talking about the whole time. This guy right here, Reuben. I've been waiting to see something. Okay. All right. >> He wanted to get in there. We're trying to hold him back. >> Okay. >> You know, he's like, "Hey, Eva's in there. She's shot. She's shot. Like, we need to get in there. These kids." >> Okay. >> And we know we need to get in there, but we don't have the right equipment. I didn't even bother to throw on my rifle plates at all. Like I said, we didn't have any shields, no no flashbangs, no nothing that we could have used to create a distraction to not only like not sound selfish, but make sure we go home at the end of the day, but at least more of these kids can go home at the end of the day. >> I'm trying to hear something. >> Okay, Ruben, you good? >> Did you get hit? I'm being your bleeding. You're good. It looks super official. >> You got chief's in there. >> So, our chief of the school PD's on this side. He's right here where this chair is at with his door. His >> chair in the room. >> No, you want to make >> We're waiting. We got a negotiator and we're waiting for more shields. >> The door's completely closed. We can't see [ __ ] When we when we approached, we started shooting and me and Harvey. That's why we got this. We got Grace in the head. >> Get in. We can't shoot. We can't shoot back. We don't know if there's kids in there. >> The kids don't want to come out. >> Who's here? >> Yeah. communication. >> Oh, I see. Officer in >> communication. I don't know. >> For what side are they going to be coming through? >> This one. Is everybody check this one? >> Check. Police department. Police department. >> Police department. >> Come on. These [ __ ] check the off the classrooms that ain't got nobody in it. Real good. >> Y'all can't be like that when there's people. >> Yes, I do. Get across the street >> because I'm HAVING TO DEAL WITH YOU. GET ACROSS THE STREET. >> Get across THE STREET. >> WE'RE GOING TO BACK UP. ARE YOU GOING TO LOCK THIS AND GET THEM? >> You got to get with that. >> You know that there are kids, right? They're little kids. They don't know how to defend themselves. >> Kick his ass out. >> Six-year-old kids in there. They don't know how to defend themselves from a shooter. >> We're parents. >> Take them the out. >> As the crowd grew more impatient with every passing minute, officers began evacuating staff and children trapped in the classrooms around rooms 111 and 112. These evacuations were carried out on Aaron Dondo's orders. Even though active shooter protocols prioritize confronting the gunmen over clearing nearby classrooms. >> Hey, I need somebody to help the kids out. >> Yeah. Out the window. I'm going to go help. I'm going to go help. >> What happened? >> Yeah. Because if you don't address the gunman as kids are running out, gunman could shoot more kids. They're exposed. Run, run, run, run. >> Y'all run, run, run, >> help. >> Go, go, go. >> Kids coming out. Kids coming out. Kids coming out. >> So, we start pulling them out. Pulling them out. Pulling them out. And we're breaking the the blinds. Breaking the blinds. And And pulling them out. And I could just I could just see how scared they were. Sorry. >> No, you're good, bud. Hey, take your time. >> Take your time. If I need to take a break, you need to step out your >> You're good to get the emotion. >> It's all right, man. This is inc. This is incredibly traumatic. This is >> I can see the fear in their face near the >> I didn't even care about this at all. >> It's all right, man. Hey, take your take your time. >> We're going to we're going to pause this recording. He's good, buddy. >> Take him out or something. >> Have you texted the teacher? >> Take him out. >> You don't have their number? >> Yeah, those rounds. Yeah, I think you shot out. Yeah, there was a round. >> Those are rounds. Watch out, bro. >> There's some rounds. >> Like the original. >> No, it's in the other one. Bro, >> we're just clearing the the rooms. Make sure no kids. Just open the door. YOU READY? behind the wall. >> Quality open. Come on, guys. It's uh Lieutenant Javier Martinez probably. Do you have a master key? >> No. >> Come on. Get out. Get out. Get out. >> Break that window. >> Yo, come this way. >> Open that window. >> No. No. Just don't. >> He's talking to the other side. >> Do they know? >> No, they know that the guy's on the other side. Yeah. He shot at us. >> They're not going to answer. >> Sir, this is our logo with the school district police. Can you please put your firearm down? >> We don't want anyone else hurt. Sir, listen. Check. Go. Go. I want to go check clear. Check check. >> We need to get these kids out of here. >> Kids, it's border patrol. Come on out. Hurry up. Come on out. >> They're scared, man. I know. I know. I know. >> Sir, this is with the police department. Can you please put your firearm down? Sir, can you hear me in there? Sir, can you hear me in there? >> Please put your firearm down, sir, and come on out. We don't want anyone else hurt. >> Who got shot in the head? >> Somebody got shot in the head supposedly. >> Teachers. >> Teachers. >> Is it Is it true that the window for that room is open from the outside? >> Supposedly, he shot the windows out, but I'm not 100% there's a lot of lying around right now. intel. >> Yeah, we need we need to go over there and see. Me and Jav moved up. We tried to go in there. It's dark. The guy busted the window, shot towards us. [music] Um, so we we're blind. We can't see anything. >> These are innocent children, sir. Please talk to me. Please talk to me, sir. Can we lift it? Is it open? >> No, it's not. It's not. >> Here, let's bust it. Yeah. >> I don't want to scare them. >> I know, but they're scared already. >> Here. >> Come on, kids. Kids. Come on, kids. >> You want to do it? Watch out. Watch out. >> Wait. Wait. >> We got to get them out of there, bro. I don't know what the is going to happen after this. >> I got to get him out, bro. >> Rob school. Somebody at the office. >> Watch out. Sir, this is my school district police. Can you please talk to me? We don't want anyone else hurt. Sir, can you hear me? Sir, can you hear me? >> What is that? >> What's the traffic? >> What number is this? >> 102. >> No, this is 102. >> 103 officer inside there. >> There's an officer inside there. 103 103. >> It should have been clear to Chief Aaron Dondo that the shooter was in no mood to talk, but he kept trying to negotiate with him while the murderer tormented the kids inside. >> I was hiding under a table and there was a table curtain so the shooter wouldn't see me and it was the table curtain was black. He was playing some music and watching the TV in room 111. He was watching the news. >> He shot my friend that was next to me. and I thought he was going to come back to the room. So, I grabbed the blood and I put it all over me. And then I got my teacher's phone and called 911. >> I saw my teacher, Miss Midellis, screaming and crying cuz she didn't want to die. She was trying to she wanted to talk to her daughter. She didn't want to go yet because she thought she still had a while to teach. >> She told us that um she don't want to die and then she grabbed a plastic bag and wrapped it [music] around her arm. She was throwing up and then I didn't hear after she was throwing up. >> Some survivors also recalled seeing him step on the dead bodies and taunt them. sometimes even shooting them again after a long time just to make sure they were dead. >> Sir, can you hear me? This is Pete with the school district police. Please talk to me, sir. You don't find anyone else hurt. Please talk to me. >> Sir, this is me with school district police. Can you please talk to me? >> We don't want anyone else hurt. >> I ain't going to lie. [sighs and gasps] Hearing the kids talk about that. Your boy got teary eyed, man. That [ __ ] is The kid said the guy shot his friend right next to me and he thought that he was going to come back so he took his blood and put it on him which it which is which is very smart by the child. You know what I'm saying? Because then you could pretend to be dead, you know? Um, man, if you ain't if you didn't feel nothing just now with them kids talking, I don't know. I don't know what to tell you, man. That That was sad. >> Right there. Yeah. Check it. There might be kids in there. >> Sir, will you please talk to me? >> You don't want to hurt anyone, sir. Please talk to us. >> I'm in a crossroad. >> Well, you got these [ __ ] numb nuts out here, man. >> Is he talking >> pissing me off? >> No. >> Sir, can you hear me? >> Hey, watch out. We hear a movement. >> Watch out. Watch out. Watch out. >> Come on, guys. Let's go. Let's go. >> We got kids coming. >> Cover them. Cover them. Watch. Go. Go. Run. Run over there. Oh my god. >> I know >> they're letting the kids out over there. >> They're letting the kids out over there. >> That's fine. >> All right. >> Come on. Get him out. Get him out. >> Come on. Come on, guys. Come on, guys. Come on, guys. on that rooftop >> on the other side. >> Is there windows in there? >> Yes. >> Is he still in there? >> I'm not sure, man. >> It's crazy, man. >> Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Throw it. Throw it. >> Oh my gosh. We're getting >> We got you. >> No, we got you. We got you. Don't worry. >> Got you. I'm sorry. Is that it? Is that all your kids? Miss Thompson. Yeah. >> I'm not going to go in. Um they're shooting up the the elementary school. Really? >> Yes. There's an active shooter in there right now. There's cops everywhere. And it's not my son. Uh Rob Elementary. My kids, they're on lockdown right now. All the high schools. But I'm right here. I'm right here where they're shooting at cuz my nephew, my niece are here. A Texas Department of Public Safety or TXDPS helicopter had arrived on scene and began monitoring the school building from above. Within seconds, dispatch received another call from a child inside the classroom that lasted about a minute, but no communication took place. Again, information about the call could not be relayed to the officers on scene because, according to a Facebook post uploaded in one of the dispatcher groups, there were only two operators working at the time. The only two handling multiple emergency calls, police communications, dispatching units, medics, and even interacting with trapped victims. Despite all these challenges, the operators were going to call the child back in just a few minutes. >> Sir, can you hear me? >> Can you please talk to me, sir? We don't want anyone else hurt. My name is Pete. Can you hear me, sir? >> Leave it open. Really good. Reuben. Reuben. He's he's at a virtual client. Somebody needs to draw a diagram where he's at our assets. >> Maybe Mike. >> Hold on, guys. Hold on. Hold on. Just we'll talk to Mike. Mike's more familiar with the over there. Okay. Can you hear me, sir? >> These two doors right here, the first two. >> Hey, is there anyone in this classroom? >> We don't know. >> No, we need to we need to find out though. They're not going to come into the window. We tried several times. We had to get them out forcefully. >> There's kids in the >> There has to be kids everywhere. >> So there they're it's people already got shot and there cops everywhere. Cops everywhere. It's crazy. And that's because I All right, then. I'm still waiting for for the school to let us go pick up my son because they're not going to let nothing till everything's clear. But uh as soon as uh All right. As soon as uh soon as I pick up my kids and take them home, I I'll go back to work. All right, >> sir. Can you hear me? We don't want anyone else hurt. Will you please talk to me, sir? Hey, if you can hear us talking, if you just knock on the wall, >> let us know you're okay. We don't need anybody to get hurt in this. >> Would you knock on the wall for me? >> The only part which we spent maybe a couple hours on was a barricaded subject. come up to a barricaded subject. Possible hostage situation, hold, get what you need. If it turns back into an active shooter, then try to breach it. But never have I gone to an active shooter school training where they literally sit there with the door closed and locked. >> Two shields here. There's two shields right there. >> No, we got one in there. >> Yeah, two right here. Okay. Yeah. >> Yeah. But isn't that how the training is? What? Like it would be better for people to lock the door, stay quiet, turn the lights off, keep the kids as quiet as possible because if you make noise, you're going to alert the the shooter. Like, hello. Shield. Got one more shield. I don't think it's ballistic though. But I got one more. You guys want another one? The shield is pointless. >> The shield is pointless because you guys are not making forward progress. Move. Like, damn. This is horrible. >> Yes, we have him contained. >> But he can shoot through. So, just be careful. >> Watch your watch your watch your face. >> Watch out, guys. Watch your eyes. Okay. >> Is there anybody in here? >> Police. >> All right. I want you to come to the window right now. >> Open this window. We're going to pull you through the police. >> Come on. We're here to help you. Come on. >> Open the window. >> Knock that thing down. Knock that thing down. Move it out. Move it out of the way. Move it out of the way. Can you hear me, sir? >> All right. You ready? >> Give more teeth. >> Open this window. >> Give our key. >> Open the window >> quickly, sweetheart. Quickly. >> Open the window, guys. >> Open the window. >> It's okay. It's okay, guys. Okay. >> Pull the window. >> Okay. >> There's a teacher. >> Open the window. Unlock it. Unlock it. Unlock it. >> There you go. >> Pull that thing out. Pull that thing down. >> Watch it. Watch it. Watch it. Watch. Watch out the window. >> We have some kids that are scared, man. Let's go. Let's get these kids out of here. Let's get these kids out of here. >> One by one, the children were being taken out of the classrooms and sent toward the funeral home where multiple school buses had arrived to transport them to the hospital. Some parents were able to find and reunite with their children while others were still waiting as the passing minutes began to feel like hours. >> Doing all right, you got to talk to him. >> You haven't seen her get out. It's okay, baby. It's okay. Come on. Hey. Go. Watch it. Watch it. Watch it. Yeah. Throw that over there. Go. >> Everybody's okay in there. Just give me a good hug or not. Let me know everybody's okay. One second. Hey, I need cover. We got more kids. >> Cover. >> All right. You're not going to come out this door. You want to take a left and then follow the follow the cops. Okay. >> Take a left. Pass fast pass. Go go go go go. >> Teacher. Teacher. >> Teacher. Sir. Kids in here we got breaking their windows. >> Most of them out completely clear. >> We got vort here. We're going to clear out before we before we do any reach. We're going to clear all these. >> This is empty. I got to check this one. >> We cleared out this one right here. >> Yes, >> that one's clear. >> That one. >> Do me a favor. >> But you got to make sure though hiding all under the chairs. So, do me a favor. You don't have to come over here. Get one of one of the school officials out there to give you a master key to the to the rooms. >> Master key to the rooms. >> Unknown to the officers, the shooter's 8-year-old cousin was also inside the school premises. And as news of the shooting spread across the city, the child's mother had also arrived at the school demanding that officers shoot the gunman and rescue her child. He's being transported. But yes, she she's being transported to San Antonio. I need you to please help us because this guy he's got a rifle. >> Take him out as a nephew. >> Okay. >> Help us. Help us. >> He's doing it because his mom and I need you to help us. Okay. Your grandma's going to need you. Okay. She is alive. I saw her. I personally saw her. They loaded her into the ambulance. They're going to take her to San Antonio. Okay. I need you to help. Please help us. We need to think about. Okay. >> My son, >> yes, we're trying to get him out. Okay. >> And shortly afterward, the shooter's uncle and another cousin also called dispatch. While one wanted to offer help in stopping him, the other feared for their lives because they felt he might end up coming to their house and shooting them. >> He's my nephew, man. He's He's the shooter. I was wondering maybe he could he could listen to me because he does listen to me. >> Do you know of any change in his behavior over the last couple of days? >> No, no, no, nothing, nothing. He just said that he said that he was mad that his grandma sadly was um just bugging him so much. >> The at this shooter, he's my cousin and I don't I don't want him to come in my house. Imagine shooting your grandma because you don't agree with something that she says and then going to shoot up a bunch a school. These kids is weak as [ __ ] nowadays, man. These kids is so weak-minded, man. You think everything gonna go your way? You think everybody's going to agree with you or whatever the case may be? Like, do parents get annoying? Yeah. Grandparents get annoying? Yeah. Do grandkids get annoying? Yeah. Everyone gets annoying. Friends, it's going to come a point in time. You're not going to agree on everything or whatever the case may be. But you don't just snap and just start doing a massacre. Like, come on. These kids is Nobody knows who this guy is. So, so the room could have been the room north of him, guys. This is the utility room. So, there that one should not have anybody in there at all. So you guys know which is the room past the chair. As soon as I clear this room, I'm going to verify what's been vacated, guys, before we do any kind of reaching. Comes on our side right now. We got to save the lives of the other. >> Cover me. Cover me. Cover me. >> You police. You police. You police. >> Do we have our shields? Do we have our shields? >> Hey guys. >> Hey guys, >> that chopper needs to go out. It's too loud. >> Also, we need to verify where the children are going to be taking. Multiple shields up. Multiple agencies just arrived. We're waiting for this room to the kids first before we do any reaching. Okay. So, >> chief, there's no way to get in that classroom. I can bust the window. I don't I don't know if it's What? Cover me. >> I don't want to create more. >> Okay. We can't see the other guys. >> It's hard to be careful cuz I can't see what's in there. >> I know. I know. >> I don't know if there was two shoes. >> I'm getting the master key. >> We just don't know if there's children in the room with them as far as I know. >> Right at that moment, dispatch called back the child they had been unable to communicate with earlier. >> Hi. Hello. I'm calling the police. >> No, there's a school shooting. >> Okay. Yes, ma'am. I have a school unit there. Are you with officer? Are you barricaded somewhere? >> I'm in classroom 102. >> 112 >> 112 112. Yes, ma'am. >> What's your name, ma'am? >> Torres, please. There is a lot of dead bodies. Please. >> Yes, ma'am. Please. There's a lot of dead bodies. >> I'm trying. Please help. >> Okay, I'll try my best. My teachers are dead. >> Oh my god. >> One of my teachers are dead. The dispatchers kept the call connected for the next 16 minutes and this time they relayed the information from the call to the on ground officers hoping they would finally [music] make a move. >> Are we just waiting for vort >> I got vort on the way. I need an IC out here and I need someone to make calls. Hey, Vortex coming in 30 minutes. >> 30 minutes. >> Yeah, >> sir. >> All my all my doors and over here on my side, everything right side. >> You let me know if there's any kids in there or anything. >> Which is >> this could be peaceful >> towards uh first Nicholas side. First Nicholas, >> could you tell me your name? Anything I can know, please? Tell them you're trying to make it as quiet as possible. I don't want the broken broken glass. >> Yeah, you're cross I'm waiting for Well, I mean I'm the outside windows getting the kids out so they can keep on doing that. >> Shots fired. >> Hey, what was that? It's going to be 12. >> Room 12. Where's room 12? is I think he is in a room full of victims. >> Full of victims. Child call 911. >> The room is full of victims. Child 911 call. >> You want to you want to start getting kids out? I can start jumping >> on, man. >> [clears throat] >> One of the first members of the Border Patrol Tactical Unit or Bortac Commander Paul Guerrero arrived on scene, but he was ordered to stand down by Chief Aaron Dondo. What's the status of my lady? She got hit. >> Let's find out. >> Let's find out. Border Border Patrol got more balls than the police department. >> Hey, who's in charge of tax? >> Got to take time. >> We [snorts] all need bangs. >> You got gas? >> We got >> They're bringing gas and bangs. >> We got victims in the room. victims in the room with them. Child on the phone, multiple victims. A child just called that they'd have victims in there. >> They call that if you got in one of the students or what did they say? >> Okay. Chloe is going to be Chloe. Uh she's in room 112. >> So how many are still alive? Not >> um eight to nine are still alive. >> No master. >> So he lives here. >> He lives here. >> What's his name? All units, all units. About 30 magazines fully loaded. 30 magazines fully loaded. AR15. Yes. Ronald, >> masterpiece, >> Dude, there's random people carrying their own guns. I saw this I saw one guy. I'm like, I thought you like what the [ __ ] But then they said it was an AR. I need some air. >> Yeah, mine up. I'm good. I'm good. >> There's [clears throat] kids in there. >> Is it kidding people or is it your mom shot? >> Did your mom be shot in the subject? No one knows about kids or anything else like that. >> I know there's kids and teachers in there, >> but there's a student in there. >> Anybody hurt? >> Yeah. Get patrol. Get get get border patrol on the case, man. He looking around like y'all don't know what's going. So what we got? What's going on? [ __ ] just looking around. Don't know nothing. Get these guys in there, man. They know what to do. >> No, not here. No sugar >> here. >> Yeah. >> EMS in there already. >> No, no, sir. We have >> in there. >> He's in here. >> He's in here. >> He's in here. I'm just going to stand right here. Be ready. The last contact. Hey, hold on. Last contact we had was one of our school PD officers. His wife was a teacher. She called him to say she's not. >> They just had her number. A kid in room 12. >> A kid in room 12. Multiple victims injured. >> Yeah. >> I mean, I'm telling everybody nobody me situations my dad taught me when I was a little girl. >> Shouldn't help my teachers are still alive with their shot. How far are we all? They're inside of the building. Okay, you need to stay quiet. >> They're inside the building. You just need to stay quiet. >> While Chloe continued giving crucial information to the dispatchers, another child, Mia, called 911 and said they were in trouble and needed immediate police intervention. But because the operators couldn't hear her clearly, they ended the call. There would be at least six to seven emergency calls made from room 112 before police finally sprang into action. >> There's a school shooting. >> Yes, I I am aware. I was talking to you earlier. Are you still there in your room? Yours is the room 112. >> No. >> Okay. You stay on the line with me. Do not disconnect. >> I don't know what's Careful. I'm right behind you. Come on. Come on. Come on. >> Cover that room. Remember, >> cover this one. >> Watch out, chief. Just >> clear that fatal funnel. >> Tell them to wait. >> No one comes in. >> Do me a favor. >> Yes, sir. >> You're going to walk in for me. >> Okay. >> Okay. Wait, wait. Let me get my light. Let me get my light. Let me get my light. Okay. Go ahead. Okay, guys. Make a transition. >> It's okay. >> You get a heavy head. >> The shocks have come in through that wall. So, you know, these are not opening up this room. >> Open up this room. I already checked them off twice. >> There's kids. Oh, hey, we have a knife. A knife. >> I got a knife. We need to go over. >> Yeah, he was here when they shot him. >> I need to grab my medkit from my thing. They say there's multiple victims in the room. >> There's an EMT right here with a med kit. >> Okay. >> Hey, you know where room 12 is? >> Room 12? We're in the This is the 100 building. EMT. Hey. >> But supposedly the victims are here. I'm not 100%. There's a bunch of information flying around. >> Yes. Central office. >> Yeah, we're going to get them. >> Get them. It's >> not opening. >> Police. Police. >> We're going to get into shooting all these kids in here. Word about the 911 call mentioning victims inside the classrooms was spreading quickly among the parents and one of them, Angelie, had no plans of leaving her children in the hands of fate. At first, officers handcuffed her for arguing with them. But as soon as she was uncuffed, she jumped the school fence and ran inside to get her youngest son and one of his classmates. Y'all wait here. Stay right here. Stay right here. I'm going to go get you. >> You all right? It's okay. I just stay right here. >> I'm okay, baby. >> Yeah, I'm going to be okay. Okay. 30 p.m. >> Hey, you stay right here for your mom. Stay right here. Just wait for your mom. >> She then went back inside to get her older son. In the months that followed, she would be harassed by law enforcement after speaking publicly about the failures in the response to the school shooting. I wonder if I can crawl over there and see if I can talk to him. [clears throat] >> Yeah, cuz nobody don't have a pair of balls. This thing lasted an hour. This [ __ ] This is crazy. Somebody got to have a pair of nuts. >> Huh? >> He's shooting through the door. Another harrowing account from one of the students inside room 112 describes the shooter getting bored because of the delay in the police response. So, he asked the students whether anyone needed help and when one of the kids yelled yes, he shot them. A different student stated that it was someone from law enforcement who asked the students to yell for help. It's still unclear which version is true. >> The cop said, "Help if you need help." And then um the guy one of one of the persons in my class said help. Um the guy overheard and he he came in and shot her and then the cops barged in into that classroom. >> I need a breacher. Breaching tool. >> Hey, can you can you go get a breaching tool? >> I know. I know. He's shooting. He's shooting. >> Cover. Cover. >> Forward. >> What' you say? What's this? >> Can you hear me, sir? >> Can you hear me, sir? >> I got to go over here. Ready. >> Get that shield up. Get that shield up. Get that shield up. >> Get that shield. >> They're not going in. Hey, let them KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON. >> TELL THEM WHAT'S GOING ON OUT THERE IN HERE. >> There's two rooms. Probably the one on the south. >> Be careful. >> Probably be the one on the south. >> Holster, guys. >> Rifle safe. Yeah. Come on, brother. >> Four times. >> That was him, huh? >> Yeah, that was him. >> You came out? >> No. No. He shot from the classroom. >> Anybody else in there with him? >> Is the guy still in there? >> We're not sure. >> After failing to open room 109, Miss Aval's classroom, Chief Aaron Dondo ordered officers to break the classroom windows from outside and evacuate everyone. >> How about this? How about this guys? Break this window. Get these kids out. >> It's secure to the glass. They won't break through there. We won't get them out. >> We won't. We need to get through. We need to get We need a breaching tool. >> Huh? >> Third window. >> Third Third. Third window. >> Third window. >> Third window. >> Be careful. Crossfire. >> We're going to get these kids out. There's two windows for classroom, right? >> Yeah. Two windows to >> Hey, third one. >> Third window to the left. >> Hey. Hey. That's not where he's at, is it? >> No. No. There's kids there. >> I can't help because they're not letting regular people in if you got kids. >> What? Llm says, "What am I thinking?" I think they they they need to wipe this whole police department clean. Clean. Anyone with 10 or more years on the job got to go, man. Gotta go. You got 10 15 years on, you gotta go cuz that's about how long it take. Well, about 15 years. You know, everybody on at the top of the food chain got to go. Got to go. got to go. This is horrible. Nobody know what to do. This is about They're about an hour in and they're still hearing gunshots. And even when they're moving forward, they're not even really moving forward in unison. Really, the guys with the shield should be first. This is how it's going to go. This is how it should have went. The guy The guy is literally unal alive in people expecting the police department to come in, right? He's waiting on them to come in and save the kids, right? Or save the victims, but they never come in. So, it's just he's just sitting there waiting. But people should go in. The first two or three people are going to die or get shot. Okay? So, it takes an offic it's going to take some officers of some with some bravery to go in there and some bodies will, you know, some officers will would would die. This is what's going to happen or at least get shot and then the other ones behind them is going to eliminate the threat. There's going to be somebody sacrificed, but that's how that's what happens when you sign up for this job. Everyone with the shield, move forward, can hopefully ricochet or whatever, can hopefully block it, but there's probably going to be one or two people sacrificed and then you're ultimately going to be able to um kill him. But that stops this whole thing. This should not have went on with an for an hour like that. Horrible. Terrible. Oh, Diane said, "Uh, nope. He was fired." Who was fired? Is the chief Oh. Oh, he was fired. Yeah. Piss poor job, man. Piss poor job. >> Waiting. Well, the school just called me saying they're not going to let my kids go home until all this is over. So, this is sad, man. I never thought it was going to happen. Especially in elementary, bro. kids are are looking at them young little kids that can't fight back. It already happened in one of the in the Sandy Hook. I think it was Sandy Hook or or >> but and then people are surprised that it happened here, but this is the ideal place, an elementary school where the kids can't fight back, can't nothing. You know, a school in general was bad, right? But elementary school, it's a easy target. Easy target. Uh, you have to go talk to them. They got to count the kids first. Can >> Can you tell the police to come to my room? >> I've already told them to go to the room. We're trying to get someone to you. You hear anyone come in, but they're not supposed to be. If they don't say that they're police, y'all pretend that you are asleep. Okay. >> I hear kids. >> I hear kids. >> Sir, if you can hear me, please put your firearms down, sir. We don't want anybody else hurt. >> We got kids in here. Yes, but they're not opening the door. >> We're trying to get him out. >> Sir, if you can hear me, please put your gun down. We don't want anybody else hurt. SIR. >> SHERIFF, if you can hear me, please put your fire. >> I like I like the patrol guys. The the the border patrol guys. These guys in the military uniform. I like these guys. These guys seem like they getting they getting their stuff together. >> Boom. Coming up with a plan. Boom. Boom. Boom. Okay. >> You hear me? Please put your firearm down. Sir, we don't want anybody else hurt. >> Oh boy. Here we go. We're trying to get him out. >> They're going to break the window. Sir, if you can hear me, please put your gun down. We don't want anybody else hurt. >> Tell them in Spanish. Tell them in Spanish. Can you hear me, sir? >> Ripping through the gauze and stuff. Have that go ready to go. >> They've been bleeding for a while. >> At least goss and ws chests. >> Hey, casualties. We're going to put them right here. We're not taking them out yet. Casualties stay right here. >> Yeah. If you have anything, start ripping it out, bro. Just breathe. Relax. >> Yeah. Border patrol guys. I like these guys. >> Go, buddy. All the way. Don't stop. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. go. >> Come on. Come on. >> You clear? >> Hold on. First thought is that we need to we need to vacate. We haven't been we haven't contained. And I know this is horrible. I know what our train tells us to do, but we haven't contained. There's probably gonna be some deceased in there, but we don't need any more from out here. So, I called out and I said, "Get these kids out." Whatever. I told him, "Bust those windows. Get them out." >> Went through the wall. He's on this side, >> sir. >> Okay, I'll let you know. Hey, >> let me know when there's zero kids so we can go in >> to get to that window. I think we should flash bang that window and then go in. >> I know, but going to do it. >> Somebody's talking on the phone. >> Someone is on the phone saying that they're injured. >> Are you injured? No, we don't. We don't got gas mask. >> Some do. >> Some do, some don't. There's a door in the middle. But if they're going to be the connect, it's going to be these two right here. He can't come to his generator room at all. So, it's going to be in there. Those were connected. shot. >> One kid. >> Oh, wait. The teacher in there shot. >> Okay. The teacher shot in there. She shot. >> Still taking them out. Stand by. Ask me. Tell your mom. Hi. Tell her are you. Okay. I saw me. You know what? training. >> Can you access this room through that door? That middle door. We can access the room, bro. You stop in that room. That's why you bro. Who we waiting on? The the teacher that's injured. Is she in there? Is he in there? >> This is what Miss Avala later told investigators about the moments leading up to her rescue. >> The police busted through the windows. They said, "Police, police, we're here to help you." And they broke in through the east windows and they um glass flew everywhere. And uh the students let out a collective cry like teening like I mean they all just cried at the same time cuz they've been holding it in for so long. And um some of them ran ran to the window right away. Some of them stayed with me and they they you know they didn't move. I somehow stood up and uh you know told them come on let's go let's go move. I was the last person out. Um, by that time I was out of strength and it was my turn to climb out and the officer kept saying, "Come on, come on, get out. Get out." [music] And I told them, "I can't I'm shot. I can't I can't climb." And then they called another officer, jumped in and and between two officers, they they helped me out. >> DOUBLE CHECK IS CLEAR. TEACHER'S OUT. RIGHT. >> CLEAR. >> SO, he could be in any other classroom. >> He could be in any other one. >> Right here. I believe these two connect [music] usually. >> So, there's a there's a giant room he can be in. >> Okay. >> No other exits but here in this hallway. >> Yep. >> And then we got the windows covered. >> The windows covered. >> Yeah. >> A Yuvaldi County Sheriff's Office or UCSH patrol deputy is seen entering the hallway. [music] This is Felix Rubio, and he's soon going to learn that the shooter entered classroom 112, his daughter Alexandria's room. >> Okay, we seen we seen how we seen how the other guy reacted to his wife. You know what I'm saying? Let's see how let's see how he react. room to room all of 1080 104 102 all these all these on the west including uh we have a master keys and they're not working with those other keys >> are we waiting for to come in >> you know Sandy great point, you know, when the when the when the teacher gave her, you know, recount of what happened, you know, she's wounded, stood up, had enough strength, but when you're exerting energy and stuff like that to lead the kids through the window and help the officers, whatever, that's taking a lot of strength. Okay, you're wounded, so you're bleeding. you're, you know, and um by the time she exorted all that energy, um she didn't have the energy for herself. Brave, brave teacher for sure. >> They need you need a flash. >> Guy's name is Gustavo Ramos. >> His name is Gustavo Ramos. >> Is there a victim in here? >> No. We're testing keys. >> Are those keys? >> What are those? >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> There's a lot of people in there. That's like Who's this? I think we got everyone out. >> Pull them out that way. >> They're the custodians. Keep searching. Keep looking. We need the master key. >> That teacher, she was in the class. Jason went through the round wall and everything. One kid, >> one of the kids was bleeding. Did she get hit? Maybe it was the mother came out the window right here. >> Lady on the window. >> Lady on D Street got hit. >> And not just Miss Avala. Another student in her class was also injured by a bullet fragment. A girl seen escaping room 109 in the body cam footage later spoke about her injured friend in a video. >> Okay guys, so as y'all can as y'all know, I was one of the students in the Rob Shootout. Um, this is all the blood on my clothes. This is what I wore yesterday. As you can see, jar blood everywhere right there. And then for my friend who got shot as you can see. Um, my socks covered in blood. As y'all can see, I went through the shooting and it was hard. So, um, thank you for all the support. Damn, that's very sad. But dang, these kids be on social media at an early age, don't they? God damn. How old is he? I >> believe it's his mother. >> It's his mom. I >> believe so. That's at least that's what's being claimed right now. This guy's a local guy. If he runs, he's whichever way he runs, he's done. Whichever way he tries to go, he's done. By now, the school was swarming with around 400 personnel from 24 different agencies, all waiting for that one command to barge into the classrooms. And yet, they would still have to wait quite some time before they could do that. I don't know if he's looking to the bottom or what. >> He's looking at shadows. So, watch out. Somebody smoke. So warm. Okay, so it's 12:35. When does this [ __ ] start? Like, when did the cops first arrive there? 12. When does this [ __ ] start? Cuz this is insane. Okay. So, they got to the victim about 11:30 something. So, this whole thing been going on over an hour, man. >> Wow. [snorts] And what they're saying, two girls got shot. >> Y need to go in in order to go in >> that they put on your legs when they were. >> See, they got the ambulances over there >> and they're backing up into the school. >> Even after lining up in front of the classrooms, the Bortac team along with other officers continued waiting for the correct master key to arrive. This was despite knowing there were children with severe injuries inside along with a teacher who was dying and desperately waiting to be saved. >> We're going to get scrutinized. I'm expecting that. Uh we're getting scrutinized why we didn't go in there. Uh I I know what the firepower he had based on what shells I saw, the holes in the wall in the room next to his. I also know I had students that were around there that weren't the immediate threat besides the ones that I know were the immediate threat. and the preservation of life around everything around him I felt was priority because I know there was probably victims in there and with the shots I heard I know there's probably somebody's going to be deceased yes he has a lot of firepower correct but like I said there's going to be officers That's going to sacrif you. You're going to have to sacrifice some bodies. But this has to come to an end. Chief can say whatever he want. A know I'm going to get scrutinized. You damn right. Cuz you guys ain't do nothing for over an hour. Yeah, you're going to get scrutinized. But you got to realize this there's going to be some sacrifices made. But this has to come to an end. and just talking to him, oh, you know, there's innocent children. Will you Will you come out? That's not gonna work, man. This guy is in a is in a different state of mind. And yeah, it is what it is. He He ready to, you know, he doesn't care about life as it is. People going to get sacrificed, you know. It is what it is, man. But you got to make a move. >> And then we have one reported to uh um already injury. >> Okay. She's already in route. >> Only one injury there. >> Two uh and another adult that's at uh um that I know about one child. Nobody has a >> rampled in your truck. >> We don't know if it's got >> somebody. Let me see if I can get that camera over here. >> Yeah. Whoever has audienc >> as a part of the Bortac team's strategy, a sniper was set up to see if he can get a visual on the shooter, but that didn't prove successful. In fact, a TXDPS member tried flying a drone towards the class, too. But since the blinds were up, getting a visual inside the room was impossible. >> At least when he shot, that's where I saw the rounds coming from. >> It's more likely. >> When he shot this last time, is he shooting towards the hallway? >> Is that him? again. >> Watch out. Green laser right there. That green laser, right? >> How many? Can you hear us? Please respond. Can you hear us, sir? Please don't hurt anyone. These are innocent children. Please put your firearm down. We don't want anybody else hurt. >> Sorry, my lord. >> Can you hear me, sir? Please put your firearm down. We don't want anybody else injured, sir. These are innocent children. Please don't hurt anyone. Please put your firearm down. Can you hear me, sir? Please come out. Miss, sir. Mr. Ramos, please put your gun down. Don't hurt anyone. >> Go back. Behind the buses, please. Behind the buses. Come on. Go back. It's not complicated. Come on. >> It is kind of complicated when we got kids here. >> Yeah. Well, that's that's the whole point for the kids. >> Move back. Move back. Move back. Move back. Move back. >> Yeah. Man, when something happens to the kids, the clues ain't going to about it. >> Get back. Move back. Move back. You're not going to see your son now. Move back. >> Hey, man. >> Go back. >> Move back, please. Move back, please. Go behind the buses. Behind the buses, please. Behind the bus, bro. >> It can't be complicated, bro. It can't be. You guys move back. Okay, >> you guys go move back. Behind the bus. Stay right here, bro. You can stay right here, bro. >> Behind the buses, please. >> Behind the buses, please. Behind the buses, please. Behind the buses go in the building. Behind the bus. >> Mr. Can you hear me? I'm not even gonna lie. Tell me what you guys would rather be doing. I would honestly I don't know. I'm I you know I am for all the action like it is it is what it is. Um so I would rather be inside with these guys honestly than to be dealing with the parents outside like who I [laughter] don't want to be doing that job. I don't want to do that. I rather be in here with the action. That's me personally. Some people a little different. But dealing with the parents out there I know that's a whole another like that's a whole another problem. I'm not going to lie like [laughter] that cuz you got angry parents which is rightfully so, you know, but I'd rather be in the action. I ain't going to lie. >> Mr. Ramos, can you hear me? Please put your gun down, sir. Please don't hurt anyone else. way down. Okay. Just don't clog it up. You got to get them out as fast as possible. >> Don't stop the treat. [music] Just keep passing. >> Mr. Ramos, can you hear me? Sir, please put your firearm down. Please, sir, don't hurt anybody. Mr. Ramos, please put your firearm down. Everyone continued waiting for instructions on breaching the classrooms while another confusion broke out among the officers over whether the south team or the west team would make entry. At the same time, CBP and TXTPS medics began coordinating triage. No. Yeah, Diane, you're absolutely right. In the aftermath, the ones dealing with the parents are probably glad they were. No, for sure. 100%. You know, it's tough. You know what I mean? It's tough. because being in here, the guys that are in here are brave. I mean, it it's a tough situation. It's very hard. And these guys can be met with with death. And not everybody is built built for that. You know what I mean? Like, not everybody in the army is meant to be infantry. Not everybody else is meant to be on the front line, you know? We need guys We need guys doing the laundry. We need guys doing other things. You know what? Not everybody is built for that, you know? So, these guys are brave. It's just that the thing that makes this this problem bad is because of the the problem at the top. It's the top of the food chain that makes this whole thing wrong. You know what I mean? Like, it's it's the guys that's supposed to be giving the orders. But these these guys here that's down here, they ready to go. You know, they ready to go. Especially the patrol got they ready to go. They ready to But not everybody is built like that, but they're waiting for the orders. And that's why everybody at the top of the food chain has to go. Come here. We got to We're going to send out wounded wounded this way. Anybody wounded? We want to go here so our EMTs can work. Okay. >> Damn. 12:42. Oh my goodness. >> No, I'm good. [snorts] I'm good. >> Just trying to My hands are so sweaty. I can't get this. >> Are your bags still packed? >> They want money one other side just in case they start drawing people to the other side. If you want to take your bag and take a longboard with you >> here, take somebody with you. Roger. You want >> go with him in case he needs help? He's going to go the other side. The long board in case they start another bag. There's like 20. Some Some people got shot, bro. They're just not going to tell nobody. That's chest seals, turnips. I'm a medic, too, as well. How about this? >> Hey, that was my med gear. It's open already. >> Probably going to use your stuff. >> I see 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 cop doing nothing. The other ones are inside. I know they're doing the job, but at least they can let people know out here what is going on cuz I I done seen like 20 parents, maybe more crying, want to know what's happening to the kids, cuz there's still kids in there. And then and then like parents see that there's ambulances taking the beds in. Come on, man. You really think that these parents are just going to stay here and not do nothing and not want to see what the is happening? These are kids. These ain't high school kids. These ain't kids. These ain't high school kids that can break a window and and and jump out the window. These are little kids that can't defend themselves. >> Minutes after finding the correct master [music] key to the doors, Chief Aaron Dondo gave officers around rooms 111 and 112 permission to breach the classrooms and go in. >> Breaching. Get ready. Get ready. >> Okay. I think Diane put what time this actually started. We finally get confirmation at 12:46 that we can go in. And this started at 11:37, man. So about an hour and 10 minutes. Damn. Hour and 9 minutes. Whatever. Hour and 10 minutes. Too long. nonedited wooded right here. Welcome wounded non wounded into that classroom right there. Okay. Anything bad for the right here? >> Yes, we have a task. We're moving wounded. We're moving wounded. >> Guys, I need back here. Move this way. >> Everybody, we need that. >> Hold my medics. I want my medics right over here. Ready to catch somebody and drag them this way. >> Never mind. It's dark. Can't see anything. As soon as I make entry, I realize I don't have flashlight. I can't even see. So, I look to my right and there's a pile of the bodies. We didn't get shot. [clears throat] >> Excuse me. >> I was expecting to get shot. [snorts] >> You didn't know where the shooter was? >> No. I thought he was going to be [snorts] to the right as soon as we made entry. You thought he was going to be where the bodies were? >> Yes. >> So that's where you focused your attention. >> Yes. But it was hard to see. It was it was dark and then the door you hear a door creek open in front and then the shooting starts. It was directly in front of us. Uh whoever was in front of me, whether it was a guy with a shield or a bore attack. I don't know if he was in the stacks a little. I was either two or three. So, I don't know if someone peeled right, but whoever was in front of me, the door was right in front of him. So, the guy with the shield, more than likely. It felt like a long time. I know the video's fast, but it felt like a long time. Eventually, shooting happens behind me. And then it's [music] over. And in front of me there's someone with long hair face down. And I think it's a I thought it was a teacher [music] at this at first cuz he had long hair. They flip him over and I could tell it's a shooter. He's in all black. Get off the radio. >> We still have a classroom to the left. So me and another officer peeled that way and I look down. You >> say that way to the left? >> Yeah. We we we turn to the left to go into the second classroom and I look down and there's a little boy and his shin looks pretty big. He [music] looks older than my daughter. [snorts] So, [music] I think maybe she's not in here. And then in front [clears throat] in front of me there's a girl with a pink dress [snorts] and I thought I saw her stomach move like she took a breath and held it. I'm not sure. And I asked the guys on my left, did you see her breathe? But at this time, it it makes sense. Now, I'm not getting responses, but I have a gas mask on. I don't know if he answered me or not, but right after seeing hers when all the chaos in there started, the desks being pushed everywhere, screaming, [music] I got out of there at that point. Once they flooded the classroom, I left to look for my daughter. I didn't want to I didn't want to look in there, see her in there. WATCH the kids. Watch the kids. >> WATCH YOUR CROSS. >> WATCH THE KIDS. Hands up. Oh, they got him. They got him. >> See what I mean? There's going to it's going to be some casualties as far as the officers is concerned. you know, the first ones in there, it's it's gonna it's going to be on. And now you see an officer got hit and everything. That's, you know, it's going to take some brave guys to, you know, you know, put their life on the line really. >> Hey, grab my rifle. I'm going to help. I'm going help. I don't know. >> Son of a good suspect. >> WHERE'S THE SUSPECT? >> MOVE. MOVE OUTSIDE RIGHT HERE. >> WE NEED A ROOF HERE. WHAT the mother? It's not >> working together. Hey go >> make GO HOME. WE GOT COME ON. >> At first, the injured children were being transported to the hospital and ambulances. But soon there was a shortage of them. So, police officers and medics began placing the victims onto school [music] buses. The ones who were unharmed were being taken to the civic center where they were reunited with their parents. Waiting to get even a small glimpse of their child broke every parent who had never imagined seeing a day like this. >> I just saw her. Okay, she's good. I'm here. I'm here. I'm here. Mha. >> It's okay. >> We can't. We can't leave. >> Yes. We got It's okay. We're right here. We're right here. Okay. It's okay. We're right here. Okay. Hey. Hey. We're right here. Okay. >> Hey, it's okay. We're right here. >> Go inside. Go inside. >> Walk in. That way you can tell. >> It's okay. Mi right here. >> Get us alive. Get us alive, guys. One by one. >> Are you guys good? I'm going to move. >> Anybody alive? Anybody alive? >> Shut the [ __ ] up. >> Come on. Everybody help medic. >> Yeah. Come on, guys. Come on. Hole. Hole. Watch out. Watch out. >> They're out. We're getting >> They're not going to let you get in. They're going to >> They're going to They're going to >> Oh no, dude. Bro, full of blood. It's okay. >> Holy, bro. >> Holy [ __ ] bro. This is what I tell y'all, dude. That these parents want their kids, bro. >> I know. Damn, dude. Okay. Man, dude, THAT'S go go go. MAKE A HOLE. MAKE A HOLE. GET AWAY. What do you need? What do you need? >> Hey, moving out of the way. >> I got one right here. Hey. >> Hey, Reuben. >> Get Reuben. >> Get Reuben. Get Reuben. >> Reuben. Reuben. >> Hey. Let's get some blankets. Cover these kids that are done. >> Hey, what does he need? >> Some blankets. >> What does he need? >> He's got some injuries, but they're minor. >> I got him. >> I was on the phone with the police officer. >> Oh, that was you. >> No, I can't go home. My mom, we can go home to your dad. Okay. Everybody's getting taken care of. >> Okay. [screaming] is good. >> Everyone see what's good. >> A bullet from the shooter's gun had grazed the top of one of the border patrol agency's heads and he was immediately taken to the hospital. Had the bullet been a few inches lower, it would have been fatal. >> Who's this guy? >> I don't know. >> All right. And we're clearing street. >> I don't know, >> dude. foot and leg side of the head. Four of us probably the shield me guy with a different t-shirt and toes. MAKE A HOLE. MAKE A HOLE. >> We got a lot of units. [ __ ] It's [ __ ] [ __ ] Can't control. Can't control. Try to fight as hard as we can. All the other doors I got over there. What other Where else do you have doors? >> Right here. We got some people out here. Yes, sir. >> Hey, you need need a stretcher in here? >> Not yet. Not yet. Not yet. Not yet. >> Not yet. >> If we need a stretcher, we'll call for one. Stand by. >> Chief. >> Sir, >> you got somebody. We're roofing. >> I don't know where he's at. >> Let me get a second medic. >> Second medic. >> If you're a medic, just stand by. We're done. And obviously we got to work this, right? So we're going to be in here for a long long time. I want to touch base with you. Uh DPS is going to they're always helpful with resources. So I'm going to second the suspect should be deceased. We're always told that we need to get the cameras. Just be careful. There's uh skull fragments and stuff everywhere. They're just walking around making assessments. I think they're in here probably. Okay. The captain >> I don't know. I'll double check. >> Captain Bent Court in there. >> Captain Bennort. >> No. >> No. >> No. >> This is one of the deceased. >> Yeah. There's going to be several more inside. Uh but we need to get her out of here. Obviously, this looks bad to fly around and see a deceased out here, but I'm just going to take some pictures of her. >> Yes. Yes. >> Okay. I appreciate that. >> Okay. Let's Let's cover her up around because I don't want to flip the camera to start filming. Hey, can we get Reuben at the hospital? Have they taken to the hospital? They were working on it. Hey, she's a You know that, right? All right. You know that she's strong. You got this, brother. Hey, I love you. All right. She got this. Okay. Got it. Secure the vehicle. >> [laughter] [sighs and gasps] >> I gave Reuben a tough time in the beginning, man. But um this is just a piss poor job from the guys at the top of the food chain. Piss poor job, man. Were people going to die? Yeah, it's inevitable, you know. Yeah, that people are going to die. Are people going to get shot? Yeah, but if they would have got in there a lot faster, less people would have died for this to go on as long as it did. and to hear different um people's accounts about how the guy the shooter was waiting was waiting for officers to come in and rescue so he could get busy with him and they they never came. So he got bored and unalived other people just because the officers were taken too long. Sad Diane says, "Uh, can our next live not be about kids in any way? I need a break." I agree. This is um this is tough. This is very tough. I even got watery eyes sometime like it is, you know, seeing the child on the bus, hearing the child call 911, pleading out for help, no one's coming. This is this is horrible. Horrible. Horrible. Horrible. the top of the food chain, man. Failed, failed, failed, failed. In the days [music] that followed, some of the injured children unfortunately did not survive their wounds, leaving a total of 19 students and two teachers [music] dead, making this one of the deadliest school shootings in American history. There's just a lot, man. Yeah, I know. I know what just like I never thought that would happen here. >> Yeah, he was he he laid like suppressive fire when we when we came around this way, but he could hear suppressive fire through there. He's just shooting everywhere. >> Who called these shots fired by rush school? >> I did. >> You did? Yeah, because I was active shooting like shooting still. We both came in and parked in the front. My radio's on the floor. I threw it all through everywhere. >> I I'll set him. Mine's right here. I'll sit. >> I'm good. I'm good. >> You have anxiety. Okay. Okay. Do you want me to take your weapon right now just in case? >> No. No, I'm not going to do that. >> I know. I know you're not. >> But just just to say that I did and and to make me comfortable. Are you good with it? I want you to take a seat and relax for a little bit, brother. Okay? Because the last thing I need you to have is >> Are you good then? >> Yeah, I'm good. >> All right. Well, then have a seat. Just relax. Okay. >> Yes, sir. He's going to help me with the principal and superintendent. >> We know this guy has a kid here or what? He lives down the street. I say at least eight to 10 kids. The first one is half. >> Do you feel safe at school? >> Why not? >> Is that all to happen to you? >> And you think it's going to happen again? The school was completely evacuated and the FBI along with several other investigative agencies took over the case. The only surviving teacher inside the two classrooms was Arnulo Reyes. All 11 students in his classroom were tragically killed. While both teachers from room 112, Ava Melles and Irma Garcia, lost their lives along with eight children from their class. Based on the time of death, reports suggest that several children were still alive until the last barrage of shooting, with some surviving by playing dead in order to trick the shooter. Had the police intervened quickly, their lives could have still been saved. Other children passed away while being transported to the hospital. Some were reported to have been shot 12 to 13 times, disfiguring their bodies so severely that identification had to be done based on their parents' DNA. Many of the surviving staff and children developed severe PTSD after the massacre and alongside their parents have since become vocal advocates for stricter gun laws and school safety reforms. Ms. Irma Garcia's husband Joe Garcia died 2 days after his wife's death due to a heart attack. They were high school sweethearts, and Joe's death is often described as dying of a broken heart after losing his soulmate. Initially, city officials praised the police response and attempted to blame Miss Amelia for allegedly leaving the west entrance door propped open. However, as the investigation progressed, officials retracted those statements and publicly apologized to Miss Amelia after evidence showed she had attempted to secure the door. Authorities later admitted that there was nothing heroic about the law enforcement response, describing the operation as a complete failure. A lot of time was wasted by the officers waiting for resources they never used for a command post setup and for the master keys, all of which could have been avoided. Investigators found out that the gunman was a former student of Rob Elementary School and was identified as 18-year-old Salvador Ramos. He had fired around 173 rounds inside the school and his background suggested that he had struggled with severe personal and psychological issues for years. >> So great, let's buy him a gun for his birthday. Like what the [ __ ] What do these people be thinking? What do these parents and stuff be thinking? Cuz that's how he got the weapon. I don't know, man. I I I I don't know. I I'm more of, you know, and I get it. You got you got some kids that, you know, they grow up around it. You know what I mean? They grow up around it, go hunting and everything like that and and stuff, but no, man. You you you that's a that's one purchase you gonna have to make on your own when you old enough. I'm not I'm not buying you nut. No, it's me personally, man. You know, cuz stuff like this and and you never know. You never know. You know what I mean? You never know. Something like this may not happen, but a kid could get angry and stuff and and you may not see signs prior. You may or you may not. But um this is just this is just sad, man. This is sad. >> Some reports indicated that he had experienced bullying during childhood in the same rooms he later shot in. >> See, and a lot of these these shooters had his stuff in common, too. Bullies, outcasts, weirdos, you know, it's all of the, you know, not popular, not you know, can't get a girlfriend. You know, it's all these guys that's mad with life a lot of the times >> because he reportedly wore the same clothes every day. Though, investigators never identified a single definitive motive for the attack. In fact, he had been planning the attack for quite a while and had been saving up to buy the two rifles. He had also texted a 15-year-old girl from Germany that he was leaving to shoot up an elementary school right after shooting his grandmother. The girl was later prosecuted and found guilty of failing to report a planned crime. A German court sentenced her. >> Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I thought he got this as a gift. He bought it himself. >> He experienced bullying during childhood in the same rooms he later shot in because he reportedly wore the same clothes every day. [music] Though investigators never identified a single definitive motive for the attack. In fact, he had been planning the attack for quite a while and had been saving up to buy the two rifles. He had also texted a 15year-old girl. I just I just shot my grandma in the head. I'mma go shoot up the elementary school. I just saw the news. What? >> Oh no. What? >> Girl from Germany that he was leaving to shoot up an elementary school right after shooting his grandmother. The girl was later prosecuted and found guilty of failing to report a planned crime. A German court sentenced her to compulsory educational measures instead of a harsh punishment. Not only this, he had been dropping several hints on social media about planning something really evil, but they were never reported. After the incident, all the local funeral service homes refused to provide services for his funeral, even after authorities requested them to do so for months. His body was kept in a morg for 3 weeks while the victim's funerals were taking place and was eventually cremated quietly by a funeral home 40 minutes away from the city. >> Shout out to the funeral homes, man. They refused. They said, "Nah, we don't want your services." That's a fact that now that's a good community right there. >> The remains were handed over to his immediate family. In multiple interviews, Salvador's mother asked people not to judge him and said he must have had his reasons for doing what he did. Later, Salvador's alleged girlfriend, Gabriella Rodriguez Morales, was also arrested by the FBI in Puerto Rico in November 2023 for threatening to carry out a similar school shooting and kill all the survivors and their parents. She was charged with 13 counts of interstate threats and could be looking at 65 years in prison if found guilty. In the same year, Salvador's 17-year-old cousin, Nathan, was arrested in San Antonio after threatening to carry out a similar mass shooting. His sister informed the family when, while driving with her in a car, he said he'd shoot her in the head and carry out a mass shooting like Salvador. The family immediately tipped off the authorities. He was hit with two charges and was held on a $160,000 bond. But all the charges were later dismissed as prosecutors did not have enough evidence against him. Ramos's grandmother recovered from the shooting months later. On the day of the shooting, she was airlifted to University Hospital in San Antonio in critical condition, which saved her life. Months after the shooting, Pete Arendondo was eventually terminated along with several officers who had responded to the scene. One of them was TXPS trooper Crimson. >> Man, I seen her in the beginning. We seen her in the beginning. She was just sitting at the door doing nothing. I don't know if you caught a quick glimpse of her, but I remember her from the beginning. This whole family is fried. The whole family, his whole family is not right in the head. But this one, I seen her in the beginning, >> but was never seen any. >> Yeah. Yep. This chick, we seen her in the beginning, man. She did a [clears throat] whole lot of nothing just sitting there spectating. >> Terminated along with several officers who had responded to the scene. One of them was TXDPS trooper Crimson, who was never seen entering the school building, even though she was one of the first officers to reach the school and was also heard saying that if her son had been inside, she would have gone in. >> Your kids? >> Yeah, my my son's in daycare. He's not >> He's not old enough. >> I saw you. >> Yeah. No. Uh, no. If my son had been in there, >> I would not have been outside. I promise you that. I haven't completely lost faith. >> This goes back to what I was talking about a couple of hours ago. Look, for you guys that have been locked in with your boy, this is the longest live I have done. We are going on three hours here, okay? I appreciate you for checking in with your boy. All right, this is a long one. I've seen the numbers. It's gone up, gone down, dipped in, dipped out. I get it. This is a long one to watch. And I ain't going to lie to you, but this goes back to what I was saying earlier when someone said, I forgot who said it, but Oh [ __ ] Damn. Hold up. Hold up. Dropped my earpiece. You know what? It's time for me to switch out earpieces anyway. This [ __ ] probably almost dead. Switch. Okay, but this goes back this goes back to what I was saying u earlier when someone said something along the lines of um shouldn't shouldn't they just go in or something like that like uh shouldn't they uh go to the kids' aid or some something like that. I forget what exactly, but I was like, it's a little it's yes and no because yes, they should be going and rushing for the kids, but also on the other hand, these people are strangers to them, you know? So, it's a little bit different. And that officer confirms what I just what I was saying earlier. Look, man, if my kid was in there, I would have been going in there, right? but your kid isn't in there. So, you was one of the first responders there, but it didn't do a damn thing, right? Because you don't have a personal connection to what's going on. It's uh it it it you know, it's sad, man. Sad. When in reality, it is your job, your duty to go in regardless, you know, but people are humans and they're scared. They're scared, you know, they're afraid. So, because there is no personal connection in there, they're playing it. They're playing, you know, the back scene, you know, all right, you know, when really it shouldn't be like that, man. >> In the system and feeling let down by their colleagues, officer Ruben Ruiz and Felix Rubio also resigned from their positions. >> Wait, hold on. Wait, what? been inside, she would have gone in. Your >> kids? >> Yeah, my my son's in daycare. He's not He's not old enough. >> I saw you at home. >> Yeah. No. >> Uh, no. If my son had been in there, >> I would not have been outside. I promise you that. >> Having completely lost faith in the system and feeling let down by their colleagues, Officer Ruben Ruiz and Felix Rubio also resigned from their positions. The director of the TXTPS later traveled to Eualdi to testify before a grand jury considering criminal charges related to the failed police response. In March 2024, the city of Ualdi released an independent report clearing city officers of wrongdoing, stating that they had acted in good faith. However, the report sharply conflicted with federal findings from the US Department of Justice, which described the law enforcement response as a cascading failure. Days after the report became public, acting Yuvaldi police chief Daniel Rodriguez resigned from his position. In June 2024, Pete Arendondo and former school district officer Adrien Gonzalez were indicted and arrested on felony child endangerment and abandonment [music] charges related to their actions during the shooting response. On January 21, 2026, Gonzalez was acquitted of all 29 felony counts. Arendondo's trial date has not yet been set, and he continues to face multiple felony charges connected to the response. Family members later filed lawsuits against multiple responding agencies over their handling of the shooting. In early 2025, the city of Yuvaldi agreed to a $2 million settlement with [music] the victim's families with the >> which that's not enough. How many victims were there? I forgot. Let me know. So, if somebody know exactly how many victims there were, but $2 million chopped up, you know, whatever it was, tw 12, 15 people, who I don't know how many people died, but um that's not a lot of money. That's [ __ ] >> Money distributed among the affected [music] families. Later, an additional $500 million lawsuit was filed by the families against 92 members of the Texas Department of Public Safety, who had remained outside the classrooms for more than 77 minutes before officers finally breached rooms 111 and 112. Murals were created for all >> Wait, how many? 21. Yeah. So, let's do some quick math. 2 million divided by 21. Let's see. Let's see here. Yeah, because it was what? It's 19 kids and two teachers, right? So, yeah. 2 million divided by 21. Not even 100,000, man. [ __ ] man. Change. Somebody said chump change. Chump change. 95,000 and some change man for your kid's life. >> The students and teachers who lost their lives in the shooting throughout the city, serving as a permanent altar for the victims. The city of Yuvaldi established May 24th as an official day of remembrance in honor of the lost souls. The community marks the date each year with church bell ringing, prayer vigils, candlelight ceremonies at the city amphitheater, and a symbolic morning butterfly release. Across Texas, the governor traditionally orders all state flags to fly at half staff and calls for a statewide moment of silence at precisely 11:30 a.m., the exact minute the gunman first breached the school building. Rob Elementary School was shut down forever and students never returned to the campus. The school district moved surviving students and staff to other campuses in the area for subsequent school years. A newly constructed replacement facility named Legacy Elementary School officially opened in October 2025 to serve the town's third, fourth, and fifth grade students with improved safety architecture such as bullet resistant glass, strict keycard access checkpoints, and a traumainformed layout designed to avoid the same mistakes that happened during the Rob Elementary shooting from ever being repeated. All right. But now the problem, that's great for that school, right? But the problem is is that the chances of something like that happening again at that school, probably not likely, right? So now the other schools that across the country across the country not in that town or whatever the other schools have to adopt what they're doing and rebuild their school like it just has to happen. Things, you know, whether you're doing it piece by piece in the summertime, you know, let's do this part of the building, then we're going to do this part. But that takes a lot of money and a lot of funding and stuff like that, man. Because there's a lot of schools, most schools are not equipped to deal with something like that and they think it's not going to happen to their school. Man, this was a sad one, man. This was a sad one. Um, yeah. So, we're we're coming up on it's been three hours. Um, wow. Unbelievable. And then those were only the the deaths. What about the kids that were probably sh wounded? You know what I mean? Wounded, you know, not necessarily everybody, man. That's not no money. That ain't no money, you know. Yeah, they they closed the school down, redid it, whatever. Chances of it happening at that school again, not likely. But are the other schools in the country going to wake up and uh start putting some things in order because it's going to be a school that is not equipped to handle it? These school shootings are very popular. It come from a lot of these guys that been picked on. They they've been lame all their life and all of that and they might be in the hunting and guns and whatever or they might just be mad at the world and they just want to go and and do whatever. you know, it it's a lot of these guys, you know, I'm not blaming my hunting and fishing guys, you know, I'm not blaming them, but I'm saying it's, you know, people that, you know, have good easy access to guns and stuff like that. Maybe their parents do it, whatever, you know, but that's that's the common theme that I've seen with these shootings, you know. It's typically a guy who's quote unquote a lame, you know, he he can't get no girls, lonely, been picked on, you know, and school is rough. School is rough. It's rough to get through. You know, kids is tough. You know what I mean? That's a part of it. You get picked on, you get, you know, you wearing the same clothes. Kids is mean, you know? That's a a part of it. You know, you It's not right, but it is what it is, you know. And sometimes, you know, these kids get pushed so far that they do things like this. But man, he should be over that. He's way older. Like now he was like what, 18 or something? Like you ain't no little kid no more. Like you went to the elementary school that you was getting bullied at as a kid. You 18 now, man. Come on. However old you is. That [ __ ] don't make no sense, man. But yeah. Um, honestly, do I think the school safety director dude, should he have gotten in trouble? [sighs] It's a stretch because I feel like once the police get there and take over, it's like, okay, you're the you're the one in charge. I think a lot of the blame should be put upon the chief, man. He's he's the head honcho. You not getting you don't have your radio on you, whatever. But not only that, okay, we can understand that. Maybe in the beginning you rushing in there, whatever. Okay, cool. We we get that. But you don't send somebody out to go get it. You've been sitting in the hallway for over an hour. You've been sitting in the hallway for over an hour and communication is all wrong. You have to call dispatch to relate things to other officers and stuff. Like terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible. You took all day. Oh, well, we don't hear them making any sounds, so we're not going to go in. Like, what the No [ __ ] You don't make sounds. That's how you survive. Cuz if you do make sounds, the the the guy is gonna be Oh, wait. Hold on. Did I miss somebody? Hold on. Oh, yeah. Bow. Let's get them together. THAT'S HOW IT GOES. THEY'RE not supposed to make sounds. This was horrible. Horrible, man. I appreciate you guys for rocking out with your boy. This was a long one. Um, you know, yeah, I I you know, we got another stream on Friday and um yeah, I'm Yeah, it ain't going to be about no kids. You know what I'm saying? This is This is sad. I don't even know. You know, in the beginning I was like, you know, yeah, turning the monetization off for the live stream, but when when this stream is over, I don't even know if YouTube is going to monetize this. Like I don't even know if they're going to let me turn it on. And at this point, I don't even care because this right here, shout out to Police Insider. This isn't even about monetization, money, da da, nothing. This is one of them legacy videos, man. This was just for the culture. This This video was put together beautifully. This is just one of them ones. And this was this was this was great, man. This was a great video. Police Insider, the way y'all did that, great job, man. Y'all deserve every dime y'all get, man. Cuz this is this was put together very nicely. Um and a piss poor job about um piss poor job from them officers, man. Listen, you guys be safe out there, man. I'mma catch you guys on Friday for Friday's live. We back to our regular schedule time. And um yeah, I I I catch you guys on the flip side. Man, this was a sad one, man. Have a drink on me, man. [laughter] [gasps] All right. Peace out, y'all. [music] >> [music]