Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw speaks during a press conference held outside Robb Elementary School on Friday, May 27, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas. Nearly 20 officers stood in a hallway outside of the classrooms during this week's attack on a Texas elementary school for more than 45 minutes before agents used a master key to open a door and confront a gunman, authorities said Friday. Associated Press and Spectrum News StaffPUBLISHED 5:21 AM CDT May.
McCraw also said the gunman entered the school by way of a door a teacher had propped open and that police did not break down a classroom door sooner because a commander thought it was a barricade situation at that point rather than an active shooting The active shooter training was mandated by state lawmakers in 2019 in response to school shootings. Under state law, school districts also are required to have plans to respond to active shooters in their emergency response procedures.
“Obviously it’s still an ongoing investigation, but it would make sense that a police chief of a school district would be the initial incident commander," McKenna said. Speaking at a news briefing Friday afternoon following a bombshell revelation earlier in the day from the Texas Department of Public Safety, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said he was "misled" about law enforcement's response to the mass school shooting in Uvalde and is "livid about what happened."
McCraw says while there were 19 officers in the school. The incident commander believed they needed more resources to do a tactical breach to deal with a barricaded suspect.— Reena Jade Diamante Questions have mounted over the amount of time it took officers to enter the school to confront the gunman.
Friday’s update on the attack’s timeline came only after authorities declined to explain why officers had not been able to stop the shooter sooner, with Victor Escalon, regional director for the Texas Department of Public Safety, telling reporters Thursday that he had “taken all those questions into consideration,” but was not ready to answer them.
The gunman was still inside at 12:10 p.m. when the first U.S. Marshals Service deputies arrived. They had raced to the school from nearly 70 miles away in the border town of Del Rio, the agency said in a tweet Friday. “Based on best practices, it’s very difficult to understand why there were any types of delays, particularly when you get into reports of 40 minutes and up of going in to neutralize that shooter,” he said.
Everyone knows if that door was locked there would very likely have been zero murders. Interesting how the media wants to over focus on police response and not this glaring fact!
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