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Inside NASA’s Voyage to an Asteroid Worth 70K Times the Global Economy – Robb Report
NASA’s mission to an asteroid that could be worth 70,000 times the global economy is expected to begin this year.
The space agency decided back in 2017 that humankind would benefit from a closer look at 16 Psyche. The Psyche mission was initially slated to take place at the end of 2022 but was delayed due to “development problems.” NASA is now planning to launch the Psyche spacecraft this October. The vessel should reach the ultra-valuable asteroid in August 2029.
Here’s everything we know so far about the Psyche asteroid, the upcoming Psyche mission and the Psyche spacecraft.
What Is 16 Psyche?
Artist’s concept of the asteroid 16 Psyche.
Maxar/ASU/P. Rubin/NASA/JPL-Calt
Named after the Greek goddess of the soul, Psyche was discovered by Italian astronomer Annibale de Gasparis on March 17, 1852. The giant M-Type asteroid is thought to be the partial core of a small planet that failed to fully form during the earliest days of our solar system.
The metal-rich asteroid is about the size of Massachusetts and shaped somewhat like a potato, according to astronomers. Its average diameter is about 140 miles—or roughly the distance between Los Angeles and San Diego. The asteroid orbits between Mars and Jupiter at a distance ranging from 235 million to 309 million miles from the Sun. (You can get a real-time simulated view of Psyche here.)
A study published by The Planetary Science Journal in 2020 suggests that Psyche is made almost entirely of iron and nickel. This metallic composition sets it apart from other asteroids that are usually comprised of rock or ice, and could suggest it was originally part of a planetary core. That would not only represent a momentous discovery, it’s key to Psyche’s potential astronomical value: NASA scientist Lindy Elkins-Tanton calculated that the iron in the asteroid alone could be worth as much as $10,000 quadrillion (yes, you read that right). For context, the entire global economy is worth roughly $110 trillion as of writing. However, more recent research out of the University of Arizona suggests that the asteroid might not be as metallic or dense as once thought. Psyche could actually be closer to a rubble pile, rather than an exposed planetary core, the research claims. If true, this would devalue the asteroid. NASA’s upcoming mission should settle the debate about Pysche’s composition for once and all.
Of course, Psyche isn’t the only valuable rock in space. NASA has previously said the belt of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter holds mineral wealth equivalent to about $100 billion for every individual on Earth. Mining the precious metals within each asteroid and successfully getting them back down to earth is the hard part. Then you have the whole supply and demand conundrum that could drive the price of specific metals up or down. We’ll leave the complexities of space mining for another day.
Why Is NASA Traveling to 16 Psyche?
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft in December 2022.
NASA/JPL-Caltech
If Psyche is, in fact, the leftover core of a planet that never properly formed, it could reveal secrets about Earth’s own core. The interior of terrestrial planets is normally hidden beneath the mantle and crust, but Psyche has no such outer layers. The asteroid’s mantle and crust were likely stripped away by multiple violent collisions during our solar system’s early formation. By examining Psyche, we can further understand how Earth’s core came to be. The mission could also provide insights into the formation of our solar system and the planetary systems around other stars.
According to NASA, this marks humanity’s first exploration of a world made largely of metal. The Psyche spacecraft will use special tools to identify the types of materials that make up the asteroid. Is it actually iron and nickel, for instance? Or something else? The craft will also measure Psyche’s gravity and magnetic field and ascertain the asteroid’s topography. All of this will tell us more about Psyche’s formation history and evolution.
What Is the Psyche Spacecraft, and How Does It Work?
Technicians at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida perform work on Psyche.
NASA/Isaac Watson
Measuring 10 feet by 8 feet, Psyche is a little larger than a smart car. Instead of running on traditional rocket fuel, the spacecraft will produce its own solar energy. It’s fitted with large solar panels, which make it as big as a tennis court once deployed, that will generate electricity to power the ion drive and the innovative new Hall thruster. Essentially, the electricity from the solar panels is used to convert the fuel source (xenon gas) to xenon ions that are expelled to provide thrust. (The xenon propellant also produces a cool blue glow.) Pysche will gradually build up speed using ion propulsion. The spacecraft will also swing past Mars for a gravitational push during its voyage to the asteroid.
In addition, Psyche will be equipped with an array of futuristic tech. The spacecraft will test out something called “Deep Space Optical Communication,” in which messages are encoded on photons (particles of light) instead of radio waves. It could mean transmitting far more data back to Earth in a given amount of time.
The craft will also feature a gamma ray and neutron spectrometer to identify the types of materials in Psyche; a magnetometer to measure the asteroid’s magnetic field; and a multi-spectral imager to capture high-resolution snaps of it. To top it off, Psyche will use radio waves to measure the asteroid’s gravity. This, combined with maps of the asteroid’s surface features, should give us some more intel about the asteroid’s interior structure.
How Much Will the Psyche Mission Cost?
The Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) Chassis of NASA’s Psyche spacecraft.
NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA says the total life-cycle mission costs for Psyche (including the rocket) are $985 million. A total of $717 million have been spent on the project as of last July. Sounds like a pittance compared to that $10,000 quadrillion.
How Long Will the Psyche Mission Take?
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
NASA/JPL-Caltech
Psyche will cover some 280 million miles to reach its namesake asteroid. The spacecraft is expected to launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket in October 2023. The craft will aim for a gravity assist from Mars in 2026 to help it along the next stage of the journey. It will then spend 21 months measuring and mapping, gradually tightening its orbit until it passes just above Psyche’s surface. If all goes to plan, Psyche will arrive at the asteroid in August 2029. NASA says the mission team continues to complete testing of the spacecraft’s flight software in preparation for the October launch date. Godspeed, Psyche.
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Uvalde schools superintendent announces retirement after new details following the Robb Elementary massacre
Uvalde, Texas
CNN
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Hal Harrell, superintendent of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, announced his retirement Monday, according to a Facebook post by his wife, Donna Goates Harrell.
“I am truly grateful for your support and well wishes. My decision to retire has not been made lightly and was made after much prayer and discernment,” the post read. “My wife and I love you all and this community that we both grew up in, and therefore the decision was a difficult one for us.”
Harrell has been under scrutiny since the May 24 slaughter at Robb Elementary School in Texas.
Harrell will remain throughout the year until a new superintendent is named, the post said. The school board was holding a meeting Monday night.
Before the meeting Harrell was greeted and hugged by a throng of people. He responded to CNN questions by saying, “I think I’m going to enjoy this right now, thank you.” When pressed further by CNN, Harrell said, “I’m going to visit (with people).”
During the meeting the board went into closed session. According to a meeting agenda part of the closed session was for an “attorney consultation regarding legal issues related to Superintendent retirement and transition.”
Board members were then slated to resume the public part of the meeting and “take possible action regarding Superintendent retirement,” it added.
The massacre left 19 children and two teachers dead. Months later, new details are still emerging about the school district’s response to the shooting.
“My heart was broken on May 24th and I will always pray for each precious life that was tragically taken as well as their families,” the Facebook post said.
According to the post, the superintendent asked his wife “to post this message since he doesn’t have Facebook.”
Last week, Harrell emailed staff about his intention to retire.
“I am in my 31st year in education, all served and dedicated to the students and families here in Uvalde,” Harrell wrote.
That message came hours after the school district announced it was suspending operations of its police force and placing a lieutenant and another top school official on leave as part of its investigation.
The email also came after CNN reported the Uvalde school district had recently hired Crimson Elizondo, a former Texas Department of Public Safety trooper under investigation for her response to the massacre.
Elizondo arrived minutes after the shooting started and was heard on body-worn camera video saying she would have responded differently had her own son been inside the school.
“If my son had been in there, I would not have been outside,” she told another officer. “I promise you that.”
The school district apologized to the victims’ families and the Uvalde community “for the pain that this revelation has caused,” the district said last week. “Ms. Elizondo’s statement in the audio is not consistent with the District’s expectations.”
Elizondo has been fired from the school district and declined to speak with CNN.
While Harrell announced a series of new safety measures for this school year, some Uvalde parents have called for the superintendent’s removal for months.
Uvalde shooting: Robb Elementary school principal allowed to return to work after brief suspension, attorney says
Cedillo provided CNN with a copy of the letter Gutierrez received Thursday from the division superintendent stating she could return to work on July 28, 2022, in an administrative capacity, which means as a principal.
“Thank you for responding to our request for information by submitting your response to the House Investigative Report. As a result of our review, you will be allowed to return to work on this date (July 28, 2022),” wrote Hal Harrell, the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District superintendent.
“As we discussed today, with mutual agreement, you will continue to serve the District in an administrative capacity. Thank you for helping us as we work through the transition,” Harrell wrote.
CNN has reached to the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District for comment.
Javier Cazares, whose daughter was killed in the mass shooting, called the principal’s return to work a “slap to our faces,” referring to the victims and their parents.
“Being the person in charge, she should’ve made sure that school was safe, and she failed at her job, bottom line,” said Cazares, whose daughter Jacklyn was 9.
“It goes to show you how Uvalde works. They will do anything to protect themselves and forget the children,” Cazares told CNN. “No one wants to be responsible for their actions and inaction, and it makes me sick.”
Cedillo said his client was not looking for vindication.
“She sought merely to be allowed to continue her efforts to assist in the healing process for the families in the community she loves,” Cedillo said Friday.
“She understands and respects that the grieving process might involve anger. That is a natural reaction and she respects and empathizes with everything those affected are going through. She prays for the strength to focus on the healing process that will be prolonged and probably never-ending,” Cedillo said.
The principal’s reinstatement comes after an exclusive interview with CNN Wednesday in which Gutierrez defended her actions during the May 24 shooting.
“I feel that I followed the training that I was provided with to the best of my abilities,” she said when asked whether she felt she should lose her job. “And I will second-guess myself for the rest of my life.”
During the interview, she disputed the criticisms made against her in the Texas House Investigative committee report — which alleged that the school had a culture of noncompliance with safety policies, that spotty Wi-Fi could have delayed the active shooter lockdown, and that she failed to use the intercom system to alert the campus.
Gutierrez wrote a letter to the Texas House Investigative Committee and to the district Wednesday defending her actions, saying that the allegations against her were “unfair and inaccurate.” Gutierrez also stated that she followed her training on that ill-fated day and she wanted her job back. CNN obtained a copy of the letter from Cedillo.
CNN’s Jeremy Harlan and Ray Sanchez contributed to this report.
Uvalde police missed chances to stop Robb Elementary shooter, report finds
Researchers from the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center (ALERRT) at Texas State University, which specializes in active-shooter training, also found tactical errors and potential breaches of protocol in a review of the police response to the worst school shooting in the United States in nearly a decade. Subject matter experts based their findings on a one-hour briefing with an investigating officer and evidence such as surveillance footage, verbal testimony and radio logs.
The Texas Department of Public Safety and Gov. Greg Abbott (R) asked ALERRT to examine the police response. It’s one of several reports and investigations underway by local, state and federal officials examining law enforcement’s much-criticized reaction to the massacre. It took one hour, 11 minutes and 26 seconds after the first officers arrived at the scene for law enforcement to enter the classroom and kill the gunman. In the intervening minutes, injured and dying children in Rooms 111 and 112 were trapped and called 911 begging for help.
A three-person Texas House quasi-judicial committee has spent weeks interviewing 36 people — 19 of whom are law enforcement officers — behind closed doors and is expected to pull together an investigative report by late July. The committee said witnesses have been cooperative but Uvalde County Sheriff Ruben Nolasco has so far ignored requests to testify and could face subpoena.
The Justice Department is also reviewing the law enforcement response to the attack.
While the ALERRT report echoes much of what Texas Department of Public Safety officials outlined for state senators earlier this month, the training experts added context and perspective to understand what should or could have happened if law enforcement had executed their training. Their timeline, however, falls short of explaining why certain decisions were made.
“Ultimately it is unclear why the officers decided to assault the room at 12:50:03,” the report said. “While we do not have definitive information at this point, it is possible that some of the people who died during this event could have been saved if they had received more rapid medical care.”
Much of the blame and anger has been directed toward the Uvalde school police chief, Pedro “Pete” Arredondo, who recently resigned from his city council post. But the authors focused on the individual actions of responding officers at the scene and the chaos clouding the multiple missed opportunities police had to stop the shooter.
A lawyer for Arredondo did not respond to requests for comment.
In the case of the Uvalde police officer, waiting for permission to use deadly force cost precious time, the report said. The officer at 148 yards away would have been justified in taking the shot, but he was concerned about missing and injuring students.
The hesitation doomed the likelihood of stopping the massacre before it started.
“When he turned back to address the suspect, the suspect had already entered the west hall exterior door at 11:33:00,” the authors wrote.
Pete Blair, ALERRT’s executive director and one of the report’s authors, said that under Texas law, it is not necessary for an officer to ask for permission to use lethal force. Though individual departments may have policies for specific circumstances, he said the officer ultimately had the authority to make a call on his own.
“He didn’t need permission,” Blair said.
A Uvalde school district officer who arrived at the school property in minutes drove so quickly that he missed the gunman. Experts said had he approached more slowly, “he might have seen the suspect and been able to engage him before the suspect entered the building.”
The first three Uvalde police officers on scene retreated when they were fired upon inside the school, leading to a loss of momentum, the report said. Two officers were grazed as the gunman’s bullets pierced through Sheetrock walls.
But what followed was a number of baffling decisions that did not appear to adhere to protocol for active shooting situations. Officers are trained to “stop the killing” and then “stop the dying,” but law enforcers in Uvalde were fixated on keys and locks for doors they had not tried to open. The shooting continued while police failed to develop an alternative plan to attack the gunman.
Officers had body armor and rifles but they did not return fire. Arredondo called for a SWAT team. They asked for ballistic shields. The chief tried to negotiate with the unresponsive shooter. But none of those requests seemed to prompt immediate action to save lives, the report said.
“The first priority is to preserve the lives of victims/potential victims. Second, is the safety of the officers, and last is the suspect,” experts said. “This ordering means that we expect officers to assume risk to save innocent lives.”
“It is not surprising that officers who had never been shot at before would be overwhelmed by the directed gunfire,” the report said.
Every law enforcer, the report noted, should know there is a chance they will be injured or killed.
Arredondo testified for hours before the Texas House committee in a closed-door session but has seldom spoken publicly after the shooting. His lawyer, George E. Hyde, previously told the Texas Tribune that he was engaged as a first responder and “not in the capacity to be able to run this entire organization” reacting to the shooting.
“The lack of effective command likely impaired both the Stop the Killing and Stop the Dying parts of the response,” the report stated.
The report also affirmed that a Uvalde schoolteacher had closed the exterior door behind her when she retreated inside the building. But it was unlocked. The shooter had no problem entering. Had it been locked, however, the gunman could have shot out the windows and accessed the door anyhow.
It’s the first time ALERRT has been asked to produce a formal after-action report, Blair said. DPS officials provided the briefing and access to evidence. The report is the first installment of an expected three-part study, Blair said.
“Much of what they did is not consistent with our optimal response, but you have to give people the benefit of the doubt,” Blair said. “The purpose of this is not to say these guys screwed up or are responsible, but to identify what things went well and what didn’t go well.”
Texas state Sen. Roland Gutierrez (D) said the report presented nothing new to the fact that the police response was flawed and stands in stark contrast to what law enforcement did in other recent mass shootings. The senator noted the report was lacking in details about the role Texas state troopers played.
“DPS facilitated that report,” Gutierrez said. “Are we really supposed to believe that the guy who broke up cafeteria fights was running the show that day?”
NYT: Law enforcement were aware of people trapped in Robb Elementary before they breached classroom
“People are going to ask why we’re taking so long,” a law enforcement official on the scene of the shooting could be heard saying, according to the Times, which cited a transcript of law enforcement body camera footage.
“We’re trying to preserve the rest of the life,” the transcript reads, according to the Times.
“We’re ready to breach, but that door is locked,” Pedro “Pete” Arredondo, the Uvalde school district police chief, said around 12:30 p.m., the Times reported, citing a transcript. Arredondo has been identified by authorities as the official who led the flawed law enforcement response to the shooting.
The Times reported that officers had grown impatient and were voicing their concerns.
“If there’s kids in there, we need to go in there,” one officer could be heard saying, according to the Times, which cited investigative documents.
“Whoever is in charge will determine that,” another officer responded, according to the Times.
According to CNN’s timeline of events, the first officers entered the school building at roughly 11:35 a.m. — just moments after the 18-year-old gunman, who went on to kill 19 young students and two teachers that day.
By roughly 11:44 a.m., officers on the scene were calling for additional resources, equipment, body armor and negotiators and evacuating students and teachers, officials previously said.
By 12:03 p.m., there were “as many as 19 officers” gathered in the hallway of the school, while the gunman was inside the adjoining classrooms where the massacre took place.
At the same time, a student from inside one of the adjoining classrooms called 911 identifying herself and the classroom she was in, officials said. She called again at 12:13 p.m. and then again several minutes later, telling dispatchers there were eight to nine students still alive, according to authorities.
Law enforcement breached the classroom door at 12:50 p.m., using keys from a janitor, and shot and killed the suspect.
In a May 27 news conference, Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw said the classroom was not immediately breached because the incident commander — Arredondo — thought the scene was a “barricaded subject situation” and not an active shooter situation. He said the district police chief believed “there was time to retrieve the keys and wait for a tactical team with the equipment to go ahead and breach the door and take on the subject.”
“From the benefit of hindsight where I’m sitting now, of course it was not the right decision,” McCraw said at the time about the supervisor’s call not to confront the shooter. “It was the wrong decision. Period. There’s no excuse for that.”
CNN has reached out to DPS and Uvalde County District Attorney Christina Mitchell Busbee’s office for comment.
Attempting to get more answers about the tragedy, a Texas House investigative committee on Thursday held its first hearing in the mission and could produce a preliminary report by the end of the month.
A source close to the committee said that report is expected to focus on the facts only and include a chronological sequence of events, a timeline and details on the shooter. The committee is quasi-judicial and has subpoena power, and all witness testimony will be under oath, the source said.
The Texas Rangers, an investigative branch of the state’s public safety department, are also investigating the massacre and the law enforcement response. The US Justice Department is also reviewing the law enforcement response at the request of Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin.
In a Thursday statement in response to the Times article, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s press secretary Renae Eze said, “The investigations being conducted by the Texas Rangers and the FBI are ongoing, and we look forward to the full results being shared with the victims’ families and the public, who deserve the full truth of what happened that tragic day.”
CNN’s Christina Maxouris and Rosa Flores contributed to this report.
‘We’re not going back’: Uvalde superintendent reaffirms no students will return to Robb Elementary after massacre
“We’re not going back to that campus,” Harrell said during a special meeting of the board of trustees, and added he expects to have a new address for the school in the “very near future.”
The superintendent’s reassurance followed a tearful mother who spoke to the panel and pleaded for incoming second graders who were set to attend Robb Elementary to be relocated, saying through sobs her son has been traumatized by the violence.
“My son is deathly afraid of school now,” the mother said. “What he knows right now is that when he goes to another school he’s going to get shot by a bad man.”
As a traumatized community is reeling from the senseless violence, many questions about the massacre remain and authorities have often given conflicting information about how exactly the attack unfolded. Among the unclear details: how the gunman got inside.
Initially, the Texas Department of Public Safety said a teacher had propped a door open — only to later say the teacher closed the door when she realized there was a shooter on campus.
A teacher who made peace with dying
Emilia Marin, an educator at the elementary school was walking outside the school on May 24 to help a co-worker bring in food for an end-of-the-year party when she saw a vehicle crash, according to her attorney.
What followed next would be “the most horrific thing anyone could have endured,” her attorney Don Flanary told CNN.
Marin went inside the school to report the crash and had left the door propped open with a rock, according to Flanary, who is assisting Marin with a possible civil claim against the makers of the weapon used in the slaughter.
When Marin returned to the door — still on the line with 911 operators — she saw her co-worker fleeing and heard people across the street at a funeral home yelling, “He’s got a gun!”
Marin saw the gunman approach, Flanary said, so she kicked the door shut and ran to a nearby adjoining classroom, huddling underneath a counter.
It was there Marin heard gunshots, Flanary said; first outdoors, then inside the school. Her 911 call was disconnected. She grabbed chairs and then boxes to help conceal her location. She tried to be still.
“Frozen” in fear, Marin received a text from her daughter asking if she were safe. “There’s a shooter. He’s shooting. He’s in here,” Marin wrote back, according to her lawyer. Moments later Marin wrote she could hear the police.
Marin had to eventually silence her phone, convinced the gunman would hear her, said her attorney, who added she heard “every single gunshot” fired in the school.
“She thought he was going to come in and kill her, and she made peace with that,” said Flanary. “She did think that she wasn’t going to make it out alive.”
The gunman targeted another classroom and never encountered Marin, her attorney said. Her grandson, who is a student at Robb Elementary, also was elsewhere and survived. Yet Marin’s ordeal soon was exacerbated in the days following the shooting after authorities said the gunman gained entry into the school through a door left propped open.
“She felt alone, like she couldn’t even grieve,” Flanary said. “She second-guessed herself, like ‘did I not do that?’ ” he added.
DPS later clarified the shooter had entered instead through an unlocked door. The entire experience, however, has taken a toll on her mental health, Flanary said. She’s had to see a neurologist because “she can’t stop shaking,” he said.
Flanary said investigators told Marin, “No, we watched the video, you didn’t do anything wrong.”
Asked if Marin will return to the classroom, Flanary said: “I don’t think she’s ever going to be able to set her foot on a school campus again.”
While Marin has no plans to sue the school, police or school district, Flanary said, a petition was filed Thursday to depose Daniel Defense, the manufacturer of the firearm used in the attack, according to a court filing obtained by CNN.
The pre-suit petition does not accuse the gun manufacturer of any wrongdoing but seeks to investigate whether the Petitioner has any basis to file a claim against Daniel Defense. CNN has reached out to Daniel Defense for its response to the filing.
‘There is a lot of bodies’
Details of the carnage continue to emerge more than a week later.
A student inside Robb Elementary the day of the shooting called 911 fearful for her life and for her teacher, according to a transcript of the call reviewed by the New York Times.
“There is a lot of bodies” 10-year-old student Khloie Torres told the dispatcher, according to the paper.
The call was made at 12:10 p.m., more than 30 minutes after the shooting began inside the school.
“I don’t want to die, my teacher is dead, my teacher is dead, please send help, send help for my teacher, she is shot but still alive.” Torres said, according to the Times’ review of the transcript.
The call lasted for 17 minutes and 11 minutes into it, he sound of gunfire could be overheard, the Times reported.
Victim’s father also demands answers from gun manufacturer
On Friday, lawyers for the father of shooting victim Amerie Jo Garza, 10, also demanded answers from the gun manufacturer.
A letter issued on behalf of Alfred Garza III asked the maker of the AR-15 style rifle used in the massacre to provide all marketing information, particularly strategy aimed at teens and children, according to a statement from the attorneys.
The statement said Garza’s Texas lawyers, Mikal Watts and Charla Aldous, have teamed up with Josh Koskoff, who represented nine Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting families in a $73 million settlement against Remington, the maker of the AR-15 used in the 2012 school shooting.
“She would want to me to do everything I can, so this will never happen again to any other child,” Alfred Garza III said in the statement. “I have to fight her fight.”
In addition to marketing and advertising strategies, the attorneys are asking Georgia-based Daniel Defense for information relevant “to your incitement and encouragement of the assaultive use of these weapons; to your on-line purchase system; and to your communications, on any platform, with the Uvalde shooter; and to your awareness of the prior use of AR-15 style rifles in mass shootings.”
“Daniel Defense has said that they are praying for the Uvalde families. They should back up those prayers with meaningful action,” Koskoff said.
Attorneys representing Kimberly Garcia, Garza’s mother, also sent a letter to Daniel Defense, demanding the company “preserve all potentially relevant information” related to the shooting, which includes but is not limited to “all physical, electronic, and documentary evidence potentially relevant to” the company’s marketing of AR-15 style rifles.
Daniel Defense has not replied to multiple requests by CNN for comment.
On its website Daniel Defense said it will “cooperate with all federal, state, and local law enforcement authorities in their investigations” and referred to the Uvalde shooting as an “act of evil.”
Preliminary death certificates for 20 victims show they died of gunshot wounds, according to the Uvalde County Justice of the Peace. CNN is awaiting on a report on the additional victim. The shooter also died of gunshot wounds.
Survivors of Uvalde and Buffalo shootings to testify
Next week, survivors and others affected by the recent shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde will testify before the House Oversight Committee, according to the committee’s website. An 18-year-old gunman opened fire in a Buffalo, New York, supermarket on May 14, killing 10 people in a racist attack.
Witnesses at next Wednesday’s committee hearing will include Miah Cerrillo, a fourth grade student at Robb Elementary; Felix Rubio and Kimberly Rubio, whose 10-year-old daughter Alexandria “Lexi” Rubio was killed at Robb Elementary; Zeneta Everhart, whose son Zaire Goodman was injured in Buffalo; and Dr. Roy Guerrero, a pediatrician in Uvalde. Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia will also testify.
The announcement of the Washington hearing came on the same day a Texas state legislator established a committee to “conduct an examination into the circumstances” surrounding the Uvalde shooting.
“The fact we still do not have an accurate picture of what exactly happened in Uvalde is an outrage,” Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan, a Republican, said in a statement Friday.
Texas state Reps. Dustin Burrows, a Republican, Joe Moody, a Democrat, and retired Texas Supreme Court Justice Eva Guzman, a Republican, have been appointed to the committee.
State senator calls for more answers
Investigators from local, state and federal agencies say they are working to determine more about the circumstances behind the Uvalde shooting.
Search warrants have been issued for the shooter’s cellphone, vehicle and his grandparents’ home, court records obtained by CNN show. The warrant gives investigators the authority to perform a forensic download of the cellphone — which was located next to his body — in search of a motive.
Yet criticism continues over whether authorities responded quickly enough to neutralize the gunman as well as the lack of transparency from some law enforcement officials following the shooting.
According to a timeline released by Texas DPS, several 911 calls were made by children inside the classroom where the gunman was located, all while police were stationed outside the room.
A Texas state legislator raised questions at a Thursday news conference about whether information on 911 calls from inside Robb Elementary was properly relayed to responders at the scene.
State Sen. Roland Gutierrez said he spoke with the agency which regulates the 911 calls, the Commission on State Emergency Communications, and was told the 911 calls were handled by and relayed to the city’s police force on the scene. However, what is unclear is if the information was relayed to the school district police chief, who was the incident commander on the scene.
“They were being communicated to a Uvalde police officer and the state agency that I have spoken to has not told me who that is,” Gutierrez said.
Gutierrez also said he wants to know more about what was happening at the school that day.
“I want to know where the cops were in that room. I want to know how many of my cops were in there, how many state troopers were there. I want to know how many state troopers were outside. I want to know how many federal officers were inside for 19 minutes, I mean for 45 minutes,” Gutierrez told reporters.
“I want to know specifically who was receiving the 911 calls,” he said.
CNN has contacted the Commission on State Emergency Communications, Uvalde Police and Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District for comment on Gutierrez’s statements.
CNN’s Ashley Killough, Ray Sanchez, Nick Valencia, Aaron Cooper, Morgan Rimmer, Rebekah Riess, Chris Boyette, Amir Vera, Holly Yan, Elizabeth Joseph, Aya Elamroussi and Haley Burton contributed to this report.