for england, wales, scotland. 92 in scotland. the royal air force shut down the railway today because it was melting today. 105 in paris tomorrow. 100 in london, kate. it all ties in with our co2 output. goes hand in hand. >> absolutely. good to see you. thank you so much for being with us tonight. us tonight. "ac 360" starts now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good evening, parents of children murdered in robb elementary school speaking out tonight. anger directed at the school system's police chief, pete arredondo. >> you're still standing by paying him to take a vacation, correct? >> no. he is on administrative leave. we received this information yesterday. one of the things i did say when he went on administrative leave, that we were going to wait for

investigative information to come forward to help us in our decision making process. and i will stick to that. >> all right. i'll tell you this, if he's not fired by noon tomorrow, then i want your resignation and every single one of you board members because you do not give a damn about our children or us. stand with us or against us because we ain't going nowhere. >> we'll bring you more from the meeting tonight and talk to angel garza, who's step daughter was killed along with 18 other students and two teachers that day. also tonight there is more video unseen until now from inside the school. the video underscores what a report released yesterday from a texas state house committee ca called systemic failures and egregiously poor decision making, unquote. according to the committee's report, there are 376 law enforcement officers who responded to the scene. 376. yet, as a full hour ticked away,

not one of them managed to do what all first responders are trained to do, which is confront the killer immediately. now, compounding that obscenity is how hard getting a straight answer from anyone about anything, and it's been like that from the very first day. >> there were several law enforcement that engaged the suspect, but he was able to make entry into the school. >> that's the sergeant with the texas department of public safety telling me about a school resource officers and others who supposedly engaged the shooter outside robb elementary. that was a very early report, and it turned out he was wrong, which often happens. the next day, however, his boss repeated it. >> there was a brave school district resource officer that approached him, engaged him at that time. >> again, that was not true. the killer faced no opposition on his way into robb elementary. and a day later, under intense

scrutiny, a dps regional director admitted it. but that was a minor detail compared with what would become the defining falsehood of the entire tragedy, a falsehood the governor of texas assured people was fact. >> as horrible as what happened, it could have been worse. the reason it was not worse is because law enforcement officials did what they do. they showed amazing courage by running toward gunfire for the singular purpose of trying to save lives. and it is a fact that because of their quick response getting on the scene, being able to respond to the gunman, and eliminate the gunman, they were able to save

lives. >> well, those are not facts. what he said is not true. now, there were already -- even when he said that, there were already some obvious signs that something wasn't right. the timeline and the police response just didn't make a lot of sense. it took too long. now there is video from inside the school which explains why. it shows officers backing off after the gunman fired shots at them, the opposite of what their training called for, the opposite of what we were told, what parents were told the police did. now, other footage shows officers milling around in hallways doing nothing. one officer takes p on to apply hand sanitizer. governor abbott would say he'd been misled several days later and that he was, quote, livid about it, which may be true. but he's been pretty silent on the massacre ever since. there have been a litany of lies by officials. we were told authorities did not confront the shooter because they thought he was no longer a threat. then we learned about the 911

calls from kids inside the classroom with the shooter and that he certainly was a threat. we were told the shooter barricaded himself inside the classroom, so he built some sort of a fortress. we learned he was just behind an ordinary door. and it's not known if that was a locked door because no one apparently ever tried to try the handle, according to a report released yesterday. as for chief arredondo, seen here trying to evade questions from shimon prokupecz, he told "the texas tribune" he never considered himself the incident commanders and issued no order for officers not to storm the classroom. the texas department of public safety says the opposite on both. but the new report has this to say about his performance. as events unfolded, he failed to perform or to transfer to another person the role of incident commander. now, this was an essential duty he had assigned to himself, yet it was not effectively performed by anyone. we'll go to uvalde and shimon

prokupecz in a moment. first i want to play you another moment we got in from the uvalde school board meeting from a sibling whose sister was murdered. >> how am i supposed to come back here? i'm going to be a senior. how am i supposed to come back to this school? what are you guys going to do to make sure i don't have to watch my friends die? what are you going to do to make sure i don't have to wait 77 minutes bleeding out on my classroom floor just like my little sister did. i know there's nothing you can do to bring my sister back. but maybe, just maybe if you do something to change this, you can prevent the next family from losing their child. >> more now on what we're learning about what went on inside the school from these videos. this is new video being seen for the first time tonight from shimon prokupecz. he joins us from uvalde. there's a lot of this new body camera footage.

explain the importance of it, what it shows. >> reporter: well, anderson, you show the podium. you have the governor there on the day after the shooting trying to cast these officers as heroes. and now that we're getting all this video -- we had the hallway video and now this body camera video, it's hard to believe that no one on that stage -- there was every law enforcement official from here would somehow believe these officers acted as heroes. they had access to the hallway video. what the camera footage shows us is what was going on through the minds of some of these officers as they were inside the school, as they were outside the school, the confusion, the lack of leadership. you know, the one officer that we highlight in this video was actually trying to do something. you can sense his anxiety. he knew something was wrong, but he just didn't know what he can do to sort of figure out how to get inside the classroom. and then we learn there was a

moment, shockingly, a moment -- perhaps as long as 40 minutes -- after the initial shooting when officers learned that there were kids inside the classroom. >> reporter: these are the first few moments from newly released body camera footage of the uvalde massacre. >> shots fired in the building. are we staying here? what are we doing? >> reporter: it is a first-hand look into a stunning series of law enforcement failures. >> okay. uvalde, they're saying that he is possibly in the building on the -- oh [ bleep ] shots fired. get inside! go, go, go! [ sound of gunfire ] am i bleeding? am i bleeding? he's in the class. i got shots fired. they're going to be in the building, the west side.

we've got to get in there. we've got to get in there. he just kept shooting. we've got to get in there. >> reporter: but they didn't go in the classroom, not for another 70 minutes. and that decision let the gunman trap two classes of fourth graders and their teachers. >> subjects in the school on the west side of the building. he's contained. we've got multiple officers inside the building at this time. we believe he's barricaded in one of the offices. there's still shooting. >> reporter: outside we hear one of the responding officers, justin mendoza, on his phone telling a loved one what's happening. >> hey. i love you. there's a shooter at the school. [ bleep ]. >> reporter: at 11:43 over the radio, we hear -- >> the classroom should be in session right now. the class should be in session. >> your status?

>> oh, no. >> provide 401. >> reporter: almost 15 minutes later, as additional law enforcement arrives, we then hear the officers asking about the kids. >> any of the kids or anyone hit? >> no, we don't know anything about that. no kids are -- >> reporter: officer mendoza is left wondering what's going on. >> are we just waiting for more -- or what's going on? >> reporter: 45 minutes after the first officers arrived on scene, a critical piece of the puzzle from the camera of officer mendoza. >> we do have a child on the line. >> what is that? >> he is in a room full of victims. room 12. >> reporter: 911 dispatch gives a chilling account from a student still in the classroom. this was the second call the same child made to 911. the first call was apparently not relayed to these officers. >> i need some air.

>> yeah. my anxiety is up. >> reporter: minutes later, you can hear a heavily armed s.w.a.t team member still expressing confusion over if there are any kid as live in the room. >> no one knows. >> reporter: now realizing the worst case scenario is unfolding, officer mendoza prepares for the trauma injuries. >> they say there's multiple victims in the room. >> room 12. this is the 100 building. supposedly the victims are here. i'm not 100%. there's a bunch of information flying around. >> reporter: we hear uvalde school district police chief pete arredondo is inside attempting to negotiate with the shooter. >> sir, if you can hear me, please put your firearm down, sir. we don't want anybody else hurt. >> reporter: back in the hallway, officer mendoza preparing his med pack. it would still be about 25 minutes of confusion and

hesitation until the door was breached. >> one guy on the radio, decide who's going to be -- call the shots. >> reporter: the body cam footage made public ends before we can see a hail of gunfire, when finally at 12:50 local time, 77 minutes after the shooting began, law enforcement go in and kill the gunman. >> i mean, this is the first i'm seeing this. this is just stunning. you hear that officer early on -- i mean, he knows what everybody should be doing. he says it, we've got to get in there. he knows we've got to get in there. i mean, that is what everybody is trained and has been trained now for decades on, that you've got to get in there. it's extraordinary to see this. and you can tell a lot of those officers knew what they wanted to do, but it -- i mean, the lack of anyone -- is there any sign on any of these tapes about

anybody taking any leadership? i mean, somebody -- this is a scene desperate for leadership. >> reporter: it is, anderson. it's hard to watch, you know. and there is no leadership. there is no one telling them, this is the plan. this is what we need to do. this is where we're going to go. it seems as though there were some officers that were paralyzed in fear. when you look at some ocf this video and the way they were cowering behind walls, worrying about themselves, worrying about whether they were going to get shot, not trying to get in that classroom, it's very obvious there were a lot of officers who were scared. that one officer, mendoza, you could feel his anxiety, right? you see him calling a family member perhaps to tell them that he loves them. he describes it as an active shooter situation. there were other officers who wanted to help. but what happens here is that there is no leadership. there is no plan. no plan. and it's not until some time

later where all of a sudden -- and we don't know why. that's the other thing that investigators have not been able to find out. why did they decide to go in at the time they went in. nothing changed. it was the same exact situation. why didn't they do it earlier? so, officer mendoza -- there are other officers there like that. i thought his story was quite different because you see him moving around trying to figure out what to do. there was no leadership. there was no one telling them what to do. >> you use the word "scared." it's normal for people to be scared in this situation. >> yes. >> for a police officer to be scared. it's a question of do you -- nevertheless, you act. you're training. you know you have to act despite the fear. that's what training is all about. that's what leadership is all about, getting people to do stuff in spite of fear, in spite of that adrenaline that's pumping and telling you things. shimon, i appreciate the reporting, as always. a day after the shooting, i

spoke in uvalde with angel garza, who's step daughter, amerie jo was murdered at rob elementary a week and a half after she celebrated her 10th birthday. i spoke with him tonight before the school board meeting. angel, this report that was released over the weekend, hearing about the myriad failures that took place, and there's still obviously a lot to learn. what do you -- what did you think when you saw that report? >> it's just -- it's disappointment. i mean, it's, i guess, clarification that stuff we already knew but getting the clarification does make it a little harder. all of this stuff is hard. every time something comes out, it's just like reliving the

situation over and over again. >> how have you gotten through the last few weeks? >> my -- my wife, my son, and actually the parents of the other -- the families of the rest of the victims, we actually all have come together and spoken to one another. and we're -- we've really become a family of our own and we help each other as much as we can. >> i don't think i've ever reported on a tragedy like this in which the families have been kept in the dark for so long by -- by everyone, it seems. and even at this stage, the lack of answers, do you feel that?

are you -- at this stage, what does accountability look like for you? >> everybody says that. people tell me that they've never seen anything like this. agencies arguing amongst each other, trying to point the finger on who did this and who did what. highland park happened after us, and we already know everything about that. we know everything at all. i mean, we know everything. so, it makes no sense that there is still things that are unanswered about this. it's -- it's humiliating to us. it makes us feel like our kids can't rest in peace. all this arguing and bickering and lying to our face, it's -- it doesn't help our situation at all. >> do you believe that the truth will come out in the end?

>> i guess that's all us parents are hoping for. we want to, you know, fight until we do get the answers that we're looking for. we deserve that. our children deserve that. that's really what it's about. we just -- we want our babies to rest in peace. we want to know so we can grieve properly, so we can try to move forward and try to start a new normal. i mean, nobody's ever going to be the same after this. >> one of the officials a couple of weeks ago was sort of cornered by one of our reporters, shimon prokupecz. and one of the things he said to our reporter was that he would speak and release information once the families stopped grieving. and when i heard that, i

thought, well that's -- that's -- there's never going to be a time when that pain is not there. i'm wondering if you heard him say that and what you thought when you heard that. >> i actually didn't. i wasn't aware of that. i mean, hearing -- i think us parents think that hearing people, you know, release information or keep information, they're doing it for us. it's a complete lie. if they have information and they want to tell us as a family, then tell us as a family. don't release it to the public. don't, you know, try to get recognition off of a situation like that because that just humiliates us. we lost our children. this isn't something that, you know, somebody should be gaining anything off of. >> you're about to go into the first school board meeting since your daughter amerie jo was

killed. what are you hoping will happen there? what are you expecting? >> i'm expecting actually a lot of angry parents. apparently, there was chances to, you know, fix the security system or fix the locks at least. and they were just ignored. and a lot of parents are pretty upset about that. so, i expect a lot of parents just to give them a piece of their mind. hopefully they listen. everybody, you know, says that they want to help us. well, if they listen to us and they, you know, make change, then that will definitely give us some type of happiness. >> the first day of the new school year in uvalde was supposed to be four weeks from today. i understand that's going to be announced tonight that it won't be until september now. in your mind, has anything at all changed to make parents feel safe to send their kids back to school?

>> absolutely not. i feel, if anything, i mean, it's -- it's getting worse. the lack of knowledge, the lack of just it seems like urgency. everybody says, this is going to take time, this is going to take time. we're at the end of july. school is going to be here before they know it, and nobody wants to send their children to school after this. i mean, who -- who would want to send their children to school? i sent amerie to school that morning thinking i was going to pick her up that day. so, who's going to be comfortable enough to know that their child is going to be okay for them to pick them up that day? >> you have a son. will you be sending him to

school given where things stand? or how do you make those choices? >> as of right now, our son will probably be home schooled. he's not going to be going to school right now. that's something that we're dealing with. he's having a lot of just separation issues himself. so, we just want to take care of our family right now and all the other families that are affected by this. >> angel garza, i really appreciate talking to you. i and wish your family continued strength in the days ahead. >> thank you, mr. cooper. there is one thing i want to add before i let you guys go. there's been a lot of confusion on the subject of amerie and her biological father. i'm not amerie's biological father, never claimed to be amerie's biological father. amerie has a biological father,

and she knew she had a father, and she loves him. i will never try to discredit anyone in this situation at all. i refer to myself as daddy because i earned that. she called me that. the morning i dropped her off, she said, i love you, daddy. i -- that's the only reason i refer to myself as daddy because i've been with kimberly since she was eight months old. and she's lived with us the entire time. so, i just wanted to clear up the air for anybody. i'm not trying to discredit anyone. i'm just a grieving stepfather. >> i understand. that's certainly not a question we ever raised, but i understand maybe somebody did a long time ago. and i think it's very clear how your relationship. angel garza, thank you so much.

>> thank you. next tonight, more from uvalde and what is being said at tonight's emotional school board meeting. and later a look ahead at a very big week in the january 6th investigation, what the select committee is planning for its prime-time hearing, a season finale of sorts, with the promise of more to come. it's easier to do more innovative things. [whistling] ugh-stipated... feeling weighed down by a backedup gut" miralax is different. it works naturally with the water in your body to unblock your gut. ...free your gut. and your mood will follow.

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tonight's school board meeting in uvalde has been wrenching for so many reason, if only for the simple fact of watching kids standing up and talking about the friends taken from them and the existential terror they now face. >> my daughter has something to say. >> this was the last dress that all my friends saw me on. most of those kids were my friends. and that's not good. and i don't want to go to your guys' school if they don't have protection. >> and she's encouraged for her friends not to go to school too.

>> joins us now is cnn law enforcement analyst, andrew mccabe. andrew, watching that body camera footage and reading this report, which just illustrates failure after failure, i'm wondering what stands out to you from a law enforcement perspective. >> sure. so, you know, there are so many mistakes and failures and indicators of poor training or confidence or all kinds of issues in all these videos. but honestly for me, anderson, almost all of this can be traced back in some way to the core failure of leadership. and all of that washes up on the feet of chief arredondo. yes, there are people, there are others who should be held accountable as well. law enforcement leaders from other agencies who were there and didn't take charge, first

responders who were there, knew what was going on but didn't buck the system and push back against, you know, the chain of command and take action on themselves. they should have done all those things. but let's be clear. those are second and third order impacts. none of that would have even been necessary had chief arredondo put in place the most basic reasonable structures of leadership and exhibited some of the most general -- you know, generally accepted leadership approaches we expect of all law enforcement leaders today. >> according to this report, chief arredondo claims he thought he was not in command. he didn't have his radios on him. he didn't learn about the 911 calls from the victims in the classrooms. the fact that he -- does that make any sense to you? i don't understand. aren't you supposed to sort of form an incident command station

outside the building? why is he the guy going through keys if he's the chief? >> it's inexplicable, anderson. he said he didn't think he was in charge, but yet in that same statement he admitted he knew the policy was that he was in charge. he didn't have his radios with him, not because he forgot them, but because he chose not to take them. he thought they were too awkward or heavy and didn't want to have to run with them or something. it's incomprehensible the decisions that this man made at the point in his life when it was most important to make good decisions. had he done the reasonable and accepted thing of establishing incident command, establishing a command post outside of the tactical scene, bringing the other law enforcement leaders in there to share in the most recent intelligence and to understand who brought what resources to the table and make decisions to deploy officers,

which is what any law enforcement officer would do. instead, we see him for minutes on end in the school trying one key after another on a door he apparently really didn't even need to open. so, it's inexplicable. >> do you have any doubt that these videos -- there's been controversy. parents are upset about how they are leaked and all of that. that is totally understandable. do you have any doubt that these videos will for years to come be shown to every police officer going through training in active shooter situations in a case study of what not to do? >> i have no doubt, anderson, 10, 20, 30 years from now, every -- every new agent in the fbi academy, every police trainee at police academies across the country will be at some point sitting in a classroom watching these videos. and they'll pointed out every single mistake that was made. and hopefully told that if you find yourself in a situation

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just learned of a new witness for the house january 6th committee. he is matthew pottinger, who served on the former president's national security council. pottinger is expected to testify publicly at thursday's prime-time hearing, alongside sara matthews. also just in, bennie thompson on whether or not the former president and vice president will end up on the witness list. here's what he told cnn's manu raju. >> has the committee made a decision on whether to subpoena mike pence or try to call donald trump to testify. >> not yet. >> what's the hangup here? >> no hangup. we just haven't made a decision. >> what's your view on that? >> i think we would benefit from that testimony, but we have a committee. >> pence and trump? >> pence -- both. yeah, i mean, they both have, i would think, significant knowledge about what goes on. but we have a committee, and

we'll work through the process of the committee. >> thursday's prime-time hearing is expected to focus on what the former president was doing and not doing for more than three hours as the assault on the capitol unfolded. it appears that thursday will count the case the committee has been making all along about the former presidents cupbility in a larger, broader scheme on what happened on the sixth. here to talk about it, daniel goldman, he served, you'll recall, as general counsel for the house intelligence committee during the first impeachment. he's running for congress in new york for the 10th district. thanks for being here. >> sure. >> i'm wondering, just given your experience what jumps out to you from what you have seen thus far with the committee. >> well, it is so nice to have two and a half hours of uninterrupted time to do whatever you want as a congressional committee and not have the five-minute rule going

back and forth. but what they have done is used it brilliantly and in such a compelling way to paint a picture of chapters, basically, of what occurred and focusing on different aspects of it. and they've brought to life so much of some of what we saw but so much of what we didn't know so that we are now left with a really clear picture not only about what happened on january 6th but on the run-up to january 6th and what looks exactly like a conspiracy to overturn the election that was centered around donald trump and his inner orbit of rogue operators who were feeding him lies and that he understood to be lies. >> there's been questions about the sharing of the information that the committee has gathered with the department of justice. does it make sense to you that what's going on there? because the committee seems to sort of being saying, well, look, we don't have the time to

colate all this information and get it to the department of justice. is this like a turf war? >> none of the interactions between the department of justice and the committee makes a ton of sense. in large part because the department of justice is usually the body that is racing out in front because they don't want anyone else, any of their witnesses to testify under oath elsewhere, because it creates all sort of disclosure issue. and they maybe aren't asking the questions that they would ask or any testimony changes by a little bit. but they clearly allowed the committee to go forward first. and they lagged behind the department of justice. and then right as the committee is nearing their sort of climax of hearings, that is the culmination of a incredibly intensive investigation of a thousand witnesses, then the department asks for the transcripts and all of their evidence. and they said, hold on. what they have done brilliantly

is not released any of the transcripts to anyone, the public or otherwise. so, we are seeing them for the first time, these interviews and depositions. and i think they just said, let's do our hearings, and then we'll give you the materials. >> "the new york times" is reporting that in december 2020, this conservative attorney, william olsen, was advising the former president, encouraging him to overturn the election. and olson was pushing, according to "the times" the president take steps that he himself would be viewed as martial law. can you believe this stuff? >> i just don't know where donald trump finds these lawyers who have such outrageously incorrect and illegal views, who acknowledge that it's martial law yet i'm going to encourage it. and you know, that flies in the face of the white house counsel, the attorney general, his own campaign lawyers, his own white house lawyers. i mean, everyone understood that after december 14th, there was

no more legal challenge. so, everything that occurred after december 14th was outside of any proper legal proceedings. and it was almost like, let's just find anybody we can who can come up with a more cockamamy theory to overturn the election, which is ultimately what his goal was. >> you're running for the 10th district. what's the big issue for you? >> well, a huge issue is the threat that donald trump is still posing to our democracy. he is -- with his acolytes in the republican party changing laws around the country to correct for what he perceives to be the problems with their effort to steal the 2020 election. so, now, they're out there changing these laws, allowing elected officials to overturn the will of the people. >> so, there may not be in the future a brad raffensperger who's willing to buck the president. >> well, the law would just be that an elected official can overturn the election if there are allegations of fraud. there doesn't have to be

evidence. this is unbelievably antidemocratic. and given my experience on the impeachment hearings and challenging and taking on donald trump, i am running primarily on the principle that we need to defend our democracy. >> i appreciate it. >> thanks so much. coming up, the story of miracles and betrayal after a woman who was brutally attacked wakes up from a years-long coma, which is remarkable enough, and then names her brother a culprit. the details ahead.

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amazing story we want to tell you about now. a west virginia woman who was brutally attacked woke up after more than two years in a coma and named her brother as her attacker. according to the jackson county sheriff's department, in june 2020, wanda palmer was, quote, attacked, hacked, and left for dead. she is now coherent, unable to hold full length conversations. g >> reporter: daniel palmer iii was anything but cooperative, as law enforcement tried to get him to jail after an initial court spreeding on friday. palmer, in jackson county, west virginia, is now charged with the attempted murder of his sister, wanda, in june of 2020. allegedly bludgeoning her with a hatchet or ax according to the sheriff. it was wanda's mother who called 911 after it happened. >> they came wednesday morning

to mow her grass, and they found her in a big pool of blood. they run up on the hill real fast on the four wheeler and told skpus i called the police and the ambulance. >> reporter: wanda was found in her living room. >> we show up and see her on the couch bloody, battered, bludgeoned in the head or face area. >> reporter: they believed she was dead but then heard sounds, quote, commonly referred to as the death rattle. but wanda was alive. >> i wouldn't have wagered a nickel for her life this morning. >> reporter: according to the criminal complaint, a witness saw wanda's brother at her trailer that night. and investigators say there was a history of violence between them. but law enforcement had no weapon, no eyewitness to the attack, and no phone records or video. and wanda was in a coma until about three weeks ago, when she woke up in her nursing home, the sheriff says. and she told investigators the attacker that night was her own brother.

>> for her to be able to wake up and say, you know, give the name, thank god. that's all i can say. thank god. >> this case is really all about the perseverance and the toughness and the strength of the victim in itself. >> and palmer is being held on $500,000 bail. the court clerk's office told me today that he does not have an attorney yet because he is refusing to sign the paperwork. and anderson, the sheriff had told us early on that she was only able to give one word responses, yes or no to any question. late today, they're telling us that she can do primitive speaking, gave us an example. why would your brother want to do this? mean. cuz mean. everyone is hoping that she's getting better because she will be the star witness of the prosecution. >> thanks so much. really appreciate it. coming up, the latest on sunday's mall shooting in indiana, what the fbi found in the oven of the suspect's

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was another mass shooting, this time a mall food court in indiana, three people killed. the suspect had three weapons, including two rifles. he only used one of them, an ar-15-style rifle. analyzing the laptop found in the suspect's oven plus a cell phone found in a toilet near the food court. we're learning about the legally armed bystander who is being hailed a hero who shot and killed the shooter. >> reporter: it's become an almost familiar scene of evacuation in america. >> so, we were in the food court, and we heard loud gunshots. >> reporter: as an indiana shopping mall quickly became among the latest settings for a mass shooting. today the police chief announced the findings of their investigation, including the movements of the gunman. >> he walked directly to the food court restroom. one hour and two minutes later, he exits the restroom and shoots

victor gomez outside the restroom. he then points his rifle into the food court where pedro and rosa -- were eating dinner and shot both rosa and pedro. >> reporter: the gunman shot and killed three people sunday evening using a rifle, victor gomez, and rosa and pedro. he injured at least two others, including a 12-year-old girl. and then police say less than two minutes after the shooting began, the attacker was killed by a, quote, good samaritan with a lawfully carried gun. >> the shooter fired several rounds, striking the suspect. the suspect attempted to retreat back into the restroom and failed. i will say his actions were nothing short of heroic. he engaged the gunman from quite a distance with a hand gun, was very proficient in that, very

tactically sound. and as he moved to close in on the suspect, he was also motioning for people to exit behind him. >> reporter: police say the 22-year-old doesn't appear to have any police or military background but fired his weapon at least ten times based on hand gun rounds recovered at the scene, stopping a gunman with another gun is relatively rare. according to data from advanced law enforcement rapid response training at texas state university, there have been at least 434 active shooter attacks between 2000 and 2021. of those, just 22 ended with an armed bystander shooting the attacker. and of those 22, ten were either from a security guard or off duty officer. now, that good samaritan, elijah dickens, was neither an off duty officer or a security guard. he's 22 years old.

he fired ten shots during this. the gunman fired 24 shots, according to rounds recovered from the scene. but this gunman was armed at the very least with a rifle and a pistol with more than 100 rounds of ammunition. so, the intent here seemed to be do a lot more damage than the tragic loss of life we saw anyway. again, when you look at that data, it's incredibly rare for a bystander with a gun to stop an active shooter. but that's exactly what happened here and it's part of why he's being hailed a hero. >> we'll be right back. tiful da. we have so much to be grateful for. so just remembmber, if you see someone without a smile, give them one of youours. i just love inspiring people to be the best they can be. and the reason i'm able to inspire so many people is because people like you, who inspire me with your support of shriners hospitals for children. since i was little, i've broken

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