And now back to the tragedy.
And you've ALDI.
It is a small town and all day
yesterday we talked to so many people
who knew the victims and we wanna
make sure you hear their stories.
I just I got really scared and I
didn't know who was her or dead.
That is Oralia Santos,
who says she knew every single
one of her classmates who died.
Her dad and stepmom say that she
was supposed to be in that class,
but she was on the other side
of the campus when it happened.
I feel guilty for any ounce of
happiness because so many parents went
to bed with empty beds last night.
A lot of ex coworkers, people,
a lot of grown friends,
kids loss like people that we know
babies we've watched grow up.
And now too many of them will never grow up.
You're looking at some photos right here.
Could this mass shooting have been prevented?
That is the question that we ask
after any one of these tragedies,
and that is what law enforcement
is trying to determine after this
one in the last 24 hours they have
released new information about the
gunman and his moves leading up to his
arrival at Rob Elementary in Ivaldi,
and that is where Adrian Adalja
joins us this morning.
This community right now?
Adriana, still far more
questions than answers.
Mark absolutely. People want to
know what exactly led up to this.
And as this community tries to heal,
people want to know why this happened
and now investigators are starting
to trace the shooters final steps.
Authorities say the shooter bought 2
AR style rifles on two separate days.
The first on May 17th,
one day after his 18th birthday.
The other three days later they
say he bought them legally from
a local sporting goods store
along with hundreds of bullets.
Governor Abbott says the gunman
had no known history of mental
health problems and that law
enforcement had no warning.
ABC News,
though spoke with a classmate of the
shooter who says the gunman stalked
and even threatened to kill him
after he ended their friendship.
In the back of your head did you think?
Well, if there was anybody at
school who would have done that?
It's this good. Yeah, I honestly yeah.
So there were warning signs a little bit.
And the shooter was eventually taken
down by 4 Border Patrol agents.
I wanna get this right so I'm gonna
glance down at my notes a little bit.
We know that one of the agents held
a shield as they pushed toward the
incoming fire and we know that
multiple agents fired back eventually.
One of them killed him.
Adriana, the governor,
did not said that the shooter
did not have a mental health
history that we know of yet.
But what about any other
potential warning signs?
We're all starting to come out Mark
little by little, so right now,
investigators are combing through
the shooters social media.
They're starting to find things they're
seeing things like posts that he made,
posts of abusing animals.
He posted guns as well.
And ABC News also reports he sent
private messages on Facebook just
minutes before the shooting.
The governor also mentioned this
during his update yesterday.
The gunman had sent messages saying
I'm going to shoot my grandmother.
I shot my grandmother and I'm going
to shoot an elementary school,
a spokesperson for Meta confirms
they were private.
1 to 1 text messages that were
discovered after the shooting and
ABC News saying that those messages
are going to play a key role.
They're a part of the investigation.
Those are just the chilling messages.
Thank you Adriana. Coming to us live
from ivaldi this morning. Well, the
first few minutes in an active shooter
situation are the most crucial.
A lot of school districts and workplaces
have active shooter training in place.
There are tools to better
prepare you and your kids.
Brittany Ford explains.
A lot of these suspects that
planned these events out.
They're they're basically
expecting people just to sit
there and become a a a target.
Recently retired, HPD officer
with over 35 years of service.
He's also an active shooter instructor
with an agency called alert.
Alert is an acronym which means
advanced Law enforcement,
rapid response training.
Draker says in an active shooter
situation. Time is on no one side,
particularly most active shooter events
are over in about four to six minutes,
which is why it's important to
act quickly and have a plan.
Stryker says their civilian
training is focused on a three
phase approach. Run, hide, fight
avoid the situation.
Great run away from it.
If you can hide from it,
you're not able to get away
from this possible attacker,
then maybe you're in a position inside
of a room or a classroom somewhere
that you can barricade the doors.
He says most attackers don't
expect victims to fight back.
Be prepared to fight and defend yourself.
The lead of of the teacher that
faculty member in that school,
that office worker to step up
a conversation, he says,
may be hard to have. With a child,
tough thing that you have to explain
to your children that possibly
you know in this day and age.
And an evil event like this could occur,
but our tools that could save their life.
And we know a lot of you want
to help the people of ivaldi.
We've seen so many requests you
can make a Rob Elementary Memorial
Fund donation at any of the first
State Bank branch locations.
You can also text the word help to
214-977-6028. We'll send you a link
to all the appropriate locations.