A total of 19 children and two teachers were killed when a suspected 18-year-old shooter broke into elementary school on Tuesday.
27.5. 22:41 • Updated May 27 22:42
Director of the Texas Public Security Agency Steven McCraw admitted on Friday that police made a mistake by not immediately entering the class where Uvalde ‘s school shooters had been fortified.
– In hindsight, we can say it was the wrong decision, period. As far as we know, we should have entered as soon as possible. If I thought it would help, I would apologize, McCraw said.
Police have been heavily criticized for not immediately going into the category where the suspected shooter was.
Police thought everyone was dead
– I’m not defending anything, but if we go back on the timeline, there was a huge amount of fire. Hundreds of shots were fired in four minutes into these two classrooms.
– After that, the shooting was fragmented and came from the door. So the prevailing perception was that no one was alive anymore, and the suspect was trying to keep the cops away or persuade them inside to shoot him, McCraw repeated.
However, on another occasion, McCraw told reporters that 8-9 children were still alive in emergency calls from the school. It took police officers nearly 45 minutes to enter the class after emergency calls were made from the school.
A total of 19 children and two teachers were killed when a suspected 18-year-old shooter broke into elementary school on Tuesday. Police eventually shot the suspect.
The Uvalde shooting is the worst school shooting in the United States since the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012. At the time, a 20-year-old man killed 20 schoolchildren and six staff members after attacking the school.