Police were on site earlier than previously known and had enough weapons and protection to neutralize the shooter long before it was finally done, the newspaper writes Austin American-Statemanwho read documents about the incident.
Among the documents that the newspaper has read are material from the school’s own surveillance and the police’s body cameras. The information will be presented at a hearing in the Texas Senate on Tuesday.
The pictures from the school show the 18-year-old who entered the school through a back door at 11.33 and entered a classroom. There he immediately started firing and then barricaded himself. Video footage shows that eleven police officers entered the school three minutes later, according to the newspaper.
Four minutes later, the sound of more shots is heard on a video recording from a body camera and at 11.52 the first shield arrived.
Uvalde’s police chief Pete Arredondo, who received a lot of criticism after the operation, has meanwhile been looking for a key to the classroom.
More police officers arrived at the school shortly after 12 noon and entered the classroom at 12.50 after the police chief gave the order at 12.46, according to the documentation.
Several parallel investigations after the massacre have focused on the late response from the police.