Well, new frustrations and uvalda
this morning after weeks of demands
for transparency, there is new
video from inside Raw Elementary.
It has now been seven weeks since
these 19 children and two teachers
were shot and killed just days
before the end of their school year.
Since then many of their families,
the community and top state leaders
have asked the same question.
Why did it take nearly hour an hour
and a half to kill the shooter?
And why is it taking so long
to see surveillance video from
inside that elementary school?
The State House committee investigating
the shooting said that 77 minute.
Deal will be shown in Uvalde then
released publicly this upcoming Sunday.
Now no state law has prevented
the release of that video,
and our partners at cave you and
Austin obtained a copy of it,
and we had a thorough editorial
discussion and have decided
to show portions of it.
Now, our feeling being is
that that it's part of public
record and helps us understand
what exactly happened inside.
That said, a heads up for sensitive
eyes and ears this morning.
Because this video is difficult to watch.
You will see the gunman you will.
You will hear him.
Fire asked Chris Audigy is with us now.
Walk us through this video and just what
it means for the investigation. Chris
well, Mark, we've heard for seven
weeks now how the police response
was a failure and the video is
confirmation of just how much time
passed without any attempt to get into
the classroom where the shooter stood.
Just to reiterate,
this video is hard to watch.
We also want you to know that the
video we're about to show you does not
include any video of anyone being shot.
Some faces have been blurred and the sounds
of victims cries have been edited out,
but you will hear the sound of gunshots.
Understand just how much firepower was used.
After wrecking his truck outside of
Rob Elementary and shooting at two
people who approached the wreck,
the shooter walks into the building at 11:30.
Three walks around the corner and
down the hall toward 2 adjoining
classrooms where the attack happened.
A young boy in the hallway comes
into the frame and peeks around the
corner to see the shooter and then
runs off as we hear the sounds of the
first of more than 100 shots he fired
during the course of this shooting.
3 minutes later, at 1136,
the first officers arrived and two of
them walked up just outside the door.
You hear shots from inside the classroom
and they come running back down the
hall after being grazed by bullets.
One of them feeling his head
to see if he was shot.
We've speed up the video
over the next 44 minutes.
During that time is when we see the hallway
fill up with more officers, more equipment,
but no attempt to breach the classroom door.
In fact, they're down the hall at a safe
enough distance from the classroom.
Then finally at 12:21 officers,
armed with rifles and.
Holistic Shields approach the
classroom and get outside the door,
but they do not attempt to breach it.
Instead, there is more waiting.
It's not until 12:50 that we see
them make their move and hear the
gunfire from police that finally
kills the shooter and allows them
to get into the two classrooms.
At that .19 children and two
teachers were killed.
And so now that everyone has seen how
exactly that played out law enforcement
officials from across the country are
really breaking down the response,
we're going to hear from one of them to
get his thoughts coming up in 30 minutes.
OK, so now the video's public and earlier
this morning we heard from a parent who
said it just had this visceral response.
I mean, he said he wanted to go after
these officers for just standing there.
Now we understand the anger, right?
But there's anger, there's accountability.
Could we see any of that?
And there's certain avenues
for accountability.
One of them is in the form of.
Civil lawsuits and that piece of video
will be evidence that can be shown
before a judge and jury for any kind
of civil lawsuit that may be filed.
We assume that there will be plenty
to come from this incident now.
There have been questions about criminal
charges for officer negligence since
they did not go into the classroom.
I was reading some interviews on
that and a lot of the experts
say it is very rare that you see
officers prosecuted for inaction.
It's one thing to prosecute an
officer for the actions they take.
But very rare,
very hard to prosecute in action
Boy, just a hard video to see Chris,
but I know a lot of people have been
calling for its release and let's see
what happens now that it's out there.
Of course, many people in Uvalde made it
clear they did want to see this video,
but there's some disappointment this
morning about just how it got out.
Cleo Green is here in studio with
us continuing our team coverage.
A lot of reaction, as you might imagine.
Yeah, Mark families
of the victims. They did
want to see this video.
They thought they were
going to see it on Sunday so
they were blindsided by.
How it was released and then to
hear those gunshots and then to see
those officers doing nothing in that
hallway makes them relive their pain.
That is the very reason why the
mayor of Ivaldi is upset and we got
a chance to hear from him at the
City Council meeting last night.
Take a listen.
And that was the most chicken
way to put this video out today,
but there's no reason for the
families to have to see that.
I mean they were going to see the video,
but they didn't need to see the gunman
coming in and hear the gunshots.
They don't need to relive that.
They've they've been through enough
listen, the mayor says that
he continues to stand by his
statements for full transparency and
authorities had planned to release
that video this weekend on Sunday.
As you can imagine,
some of the parents.
They are upset that they were
blindsided by this move and that
they did not get to see it first.
We are ******.
These families didn't deserve it.
I don't deserve her.
That's a stop to our baby's
faces and we're tired of this.
You know,
we can't trust anybody anymore.
It's aggravating.
As you can imagine, there is a
lot of response on social media,
but I am going to focus on
the officials this morning.
There is a tweet from DPS releasing
their whole statement here saying
that they are deeply disappointed
that the video was released before
all the families could actually
see it going on to say that the
most effective should have been
the 1st to see it as well.
We do have a tweet here from Dustin Burrough.
He is the chair of that committee
investigation in Uvalde,
saying the committee is aware that
a portion of the hallway video
has been made public.
While I am glad that a small
portion is now available,
I do believe watching the entire
segment of law enforcement's response.
Lack thereof is also very important.
He goes on to say that I'm disappointed
the victims families and the Valleys
Committee communities requests to
watch the video first that they did
not get to see those certain images
and hear some of those sounds.
Mark I'll send it back to you.
A lot of reaction on social media,
of course. Understandably so.
Thank you for that.
Cleo and we know this is a
lot to take in this morning.
We have posted everything you
need to know about these latest
developments on our website.
At wa.com. You can also find it
via our app that includes more.
In-depth context of the video that came
out yesterday and a full breakdown
of just what the entire video,
all 77 minutes of it shows.