They reveal details of police actions in the Texas shooting in which 19 children and two teachers died

Police actions in the Texas elementary school massacre, where 19 students and two teachers died, were once again at the center of interrogations, following an investigation carried out by the main newspaper in Austin, the capital of that state, in which they are revealed details of your reaction before the lethal attack of an 18-year-old young man.

According to the reviews made by the newspaper Austin American statesmanseveral policemen were in one of the corridors of Robb Elementary School, armed with rifles and at least one ballistic shield, 19 minutes after the attacker entered the buildinglocated about 135 kilometers west of San Antonio.

The newspaper cited documents from unidentified investigators, including videos from school surveillance cameras and those carried by police officers. The information will be presented Tuesday at a public hearing in the Texas Senate in Austin.

Researchers claim that, according to the most recent data, police officers they had more than enough weapons and protection to take down the gunmanidentified as Salvador Ramos, long before they finally did, the newspaper reported.

After shooting his grandmother, Ramos crashed his vehicle near the school, shot two passersby and then entered the school through an open door.

The chronology of the Uvalde massacre

The timeline reported by the Texan newspaper included shots from inside the school. There, the 18-year-old was seen casually walking through a back door at 11:33 am, walking into a classroom and immediately firing an AR15 rifle indiscriminately, before taking cover.

Eleven of them were seen in the video footage the cops enter the school three minutes laterreports the newspaper.

Pete Arredondo, chief of police for the school district, called the Uvalde Police Department landline and reported that the suspect had “fired many shots” with an AR-15 type rifle and that it had greater firepower than the police officers in the area. school, of which he said he only carried guns, the newspaper added.

At 11:44 am, video from police cameras recorded the sound of more gunshots. Eight minutes later the first ballistic shield arrived and the cops became eager to act.

Arredondo struggled to find the key to the classroom lock, even though no one is believed to have attempted to open it, the newspaper reports.

Another agent with a ballistic shield arrived at 12:03 and another showed up with a shield two minutes later. About 30 minutes before the officers finally opened the classroom door at 12:50, Arredondo is heard wondering aloud if the gunman could be hit by a window.

It wasn’t until 12:46 pm that Arredondo told the tactical team members to open the door when they were ready, the newspaper reported. Delays in law enforcement response were at the center of the investigation federal, state and local information on the massacre.

This was stated on May 27 by Colonel Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Security Arredondo made “the wrong decision” when she chose not to enter the classroom for more than 70 minutes, even though some of the children trapped inside two classrooms were desperately calling the emergency services.

Self-criticism of the police

The director of the Texas Department of Public Safety admitted it was a mistake that more than a dozen officers were waiting outside a courtroom door while a shooter killed children inside.

“In hindsight, where I’m sitting now obviously wasn’t the right decision, it was the wrong decision, there was no excuse for itThe director of the DPS, Colonel Steven McCraw, told reporters.

At least 19 police officers waited outside the courtroom door where the suspect was shooting because a commanding officer at the scene believed he was a “barricaded subject” and not an active shooter. He was wrong.

The decision of wait more than an hour It happened despite a 10-year-old girl calling emergency services from inside the courtroom, begging the police to come quickly, McCraw said.

With information from AP.

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