Texas authorities have admitted that police made mistakes after the shooting at a school in the small town of Uvalde that left 21 people dead. State Public Safety Director Steven McCraw said Friday it was the “wrong decision” not to storm the classroom where the gunman had previously been. “In hindsight, of course, it wasn’t the right decision,” McCraw said. “There’s no excuse for that.”
Police officers had stormed the classroom into which the 18-year-old attacker had barricaded himself more than an hour later on Tuesday. McCraw said emergency services had since assumed the attacker was no longer an “active shooter” and that no other children were in danger. “The incident commander on the scene thought at the time that it had gone from an active gunman to a barricaded person.”
19 children and two teachers dead
The 18-year-old gunman shot and killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde on Tuesday. As a result, criticism of the police increased. The emergency services are accused of not taking action quickly and decisively. Authorities have also come under fire for providing false and inaccurate information about the school massacre.
The exact method:
The chief of authorities, McCraw, now made detailed information about the timing of the school massacre. Accordingly, the attacker penetrated Tuesday 11:33 am into the school and immediately fired “more than 100 shots”. Just two minutes later at 11:35 am, the first three police officers entered the school. Two of them suffered minor injuries when the gunman fired at them.
As a result, more and more police officers came 12:03 pm there were up to 19 agents in the school course, McCraw said. The first members of a special task force gathered on 12:15 pm a. Not until 12.50 pm emergency services eventually stormed the classroom and shot the attacker.
Meanwhile, schoolchildren from two connected classrooms had called 911 several times. Around 12:03 pm a student called the police and said she was in class 112. um 12.10 pm the girl called again and said there were numerous deaths. In another call to 12:16 pm the student said eight to nine classmates were still alive.
A 12:43 pm and 12:47 pm one student asked about the 911 “please send the police now,” McCraw said. Around 12.50 pm shots can be heard on the recording, um 12:51 pm then you hear the police take the children out of the classroom.
“I want to correct something”
Authorities also corrected information about the shooter’s Facebook posts. “I want to correct something that was said at the beginning of the investigation,” McCraw said. The gunman did not publicly announce his act on Facebook shortly in advance. Instead, he sent private messages through a messenger service. Texas Governor Greg Abbott spoke about the perpetrator posting on Facebook minutes before the crime.
Source: Krone
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