A 9-year-old describes escaping via a window as anger mounts over law enforcement’s response in Uvalde

Daniel, 9, alongside his mom, Briana Ruiz, advised CNN the gunman fired a number of pictures into his classroom after being unable to enter. The door had been locked by his instructor, and the bullets fired struck the trainer as well as a classmate.

Daniel survived by first "hiding beneath a table next to the wall." He mentioned he may see the gunman via the door's window.

"I may nonetheless see his face," the boy mentioned. "I might see him looking at people in entrance of me."

Daniel later climbed out of a damaged window to flee, cutting his hand on some glass, he stated, and the 2 folks injured in his class would survive.

Video taken from the surface of the college throughout the incident, obtained by ABC News, includes what seems to be dispatch audio informing officers on scene a child is calling 911 from a classroom.

"Advise we do have a child on the line," the dispatcher says. "Little one is advising he's within the room stuffed with victims."

The video indicates police at the scene had been knowledgeable not less than one youngster remained alive inside the classrooms.

CNN has not been able to independently affirm the video/audio. The source of the video is unclear and it is unclear at what point within the incident the audio is heard. CNN has reached out to authorities to answer questions about this audio.

Texas DPS Director Steve McCraw told reporters Friday there have been not less than eight 911 calls from a minimum of two separate callers from inside the college, covering a span of nearly 50 minutes. The choice made on scene to treat the incident like a barricaded suspect, fairly than an energetic shooter, was "improper," he mentioned.

Additionally on Monday, funeral providers for 2 victims are set to happen at local funeral homes. Visitation and Rosary for 10-year-old Amerie Jo Garza will happen Monday at Hillcrest Memorial Funeral Home, and providers for 10-year-old Maite Yuleana Rodriguez will take place at Dashing Estes Knowles.

Law enforcement response called into query

Alfred Garcia, whose daughter was killed in the shooting, informed CNN he was in "disbelief" over how a lot time elapsed through the shooting earlier than it ended and shared his frustration with authorities' response.

"It would not take a genius to figure out that it just took too lengthy to get in there and, you already know, had they gotten there sooner, and someone would have taken rapid motion, we'd have extra of those youngsters right here right now, together with my daughter," he said.

Law enforcement officers in Texas are educated to intervene shortly, in response to lively shooter guidelines in the state's commission on law enforcement 2020 training manual obtained by CNN. The manual states an "officer's first priority is to move in and confront the attacker."

"As first responders we must recognize that harmless life have to be defended," it says. "A primary responder unwilling to place the lives of the harmless above their very own security should contemplate one other career field."

Seven officers arrived on the scene within two minutes of the shooter firing within the classroom. Three officers approached the locked classroom where the gunman was, and two officers suffered graze wounds from bullets fired from behind the door, DPS said. Officers then stationed down the hallway.

The crew then did not breach the classroom for at least another 30 minutes, in line with the timeline provided by DPS. A 911 call positioned at 12:16 p.m., in line with DPS, from a lady in one of the classrooms advised the operator eight or nine college students had been nonetheless alive.

The delayed police response in Uvalde runs contrary to well-established, generally taught lively shooter protocol established after the Columbine school capturing of 1999, specialists said.

"Even beneath fire, officers are trained to go to that threat as a result of each second counts," said Jonathan Wackrow, a CNN law enforcement analyst. "What we noticed here was that delay price kids their lives, full cease."

"The aim of the overview is to provide an unbiased account of regulation enforcement actions and responses that day, and to determine classes learned and greatest practices to assist first responders put together for and reply to energetic shooter occasions," the DOJ mentioned in an announcement Sunday.

The DOJ is predicted to select someone within the next few days to steer the review, in accordance with two sources accustomed to the process. The Justice Department has historically relied on individuals exterior the DOJ with regulation enforcement experience and on-the-ground expertise with mass-casualty events to conduct such reviews.

Biden hopeful 'rational' Republicans can conform to gun reform

"What kind of world are we dwelling in that laws was created for razing these faculties?" Gutierrez asked through the interview.

Based on Gutierrez, Biden additionally informed him, "I'm not going away ... I'm gonna deliver you assets ... look to getting actual money for mental well being care." There is only one psychiatrist in Uvalde, in accordance with the senator.

Biden voiced optimism on Monday certain "rational" Republicans could comply with some sort of recent gun restrictions.

"I think things have gotten so dangerous that everybody's getting more rational about it. A minimum of that is my hope and prayer," Biden informed reporters on the White House.

Biden, in his most intensive feedback about gun management since final week's murders, mentioned he was limited in steps he may take alone.

"There's the Constitution. I can't dictate these items. I can do the issues I've carried out, and any govt motion I can take I'll continue to take. However I can not outlaw a weapon, I can't change the background checks. I am unable to do this," he mentioned.

Group comes collectively

Within the wake of the shooting, an outpouring of help to those in the neighborhood is being offered.

Carlos Hernandez, whose restaurant is a mile from Robb Elementary, wrote on Fb hours after the shooting, "There isn't any potential approach I can open my kitchen with a broken heart and have fun doing it."

On Thursday -- his 33rd birthday -- Hernandez determined to prepare dinner for the group, whipping up favourite dishes, including wings, mac-and-cheese and fried fish tacos.

Inside two hours, Hernandez had given away greater than 60 family-sized platters to feed mourning households and neighbors who're nonetheless studying how to cope with the tragedy inflicted on their tight-knit neighborhood.

"It's a real tough situation, I am just attempting to indicate the children that they do have us as their backbone and a assist system," Hernandez told CNN. "We at all times provide, whether or not there's an incident or no incident."

Elsewhere in Uvalde, the El Progreso Memorial Library has grow to be a place of healing.

On Wednesday, only a day after the shooting, youngsters's librarian Martha Carreon sat in entrance of rows of little faces, studying, singing, and laughing with the kids, taking them away to a safe place far from the college where a lot of them became witness to horror.

"We want our building to be a protected area, a refuge that is a quiet, calm and cool haven," El Progreso Memorial Library director Mendell Morgan advised CNN.

Along with psychologists who can be available every weekday for kids and adults to speak to, there can even be massage remedy practitioners, volunteers for arts and craft actions, pianists to play soothing music, and even magicians to carry skilled magic shows.

"This can be a robust group the place we've true care and concern for one another," Morgan mentioned. "Many, if not most here, maintain fast to their religion believing in God, that good is stronger than evil and light-weight is stronger than darkish."

CNN's Alaa Elassar, Ed Lavandera, Amanda Watts, Hannah Sarisohn, Eric Levenson, Virginia Langmaid, Paula Reid, Priscilla Alvarez, Whitney Wild, Paula Reid, Jennifer Henderson, Emma Tucker, Christina Maxouris, Holly Yan and Aya Elamroussi contributed to this report.