Senator Roland Gutierrez, who represents the district where Uvalde is located, asks Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw questions during the Texas Senate Special Committee to Protect All Texans hearing regarding the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde Image: Sara Diggins/Austin American-Statesman/AP/PA Images Senator Roland Gutierrez, who represents the district where Uvalde is located, asks Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw questions during the...
Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw uses maps and graphics to present a timeline of the school shooting at Robb Elementary School Source: AP/PA Images Mr Arredondo made “terrible decisions”, said Mr McCraw, who lamented that the police response “set our profession back a decade”. The public safety chief presented a timeline that said three officers with two rifles entered the building less than three minutes behind the gunman, an 18-year-old with an AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle.Two of the officers who went into the hallway early on were grazed by gunfire.
However, Mr McCraw said the teacher had closed the door, but unbeknownst to her, it could be locked only from the outside.The gunman knew the building well, having attended the fourth grade in the same classrooms where he carried out the attack, Mr McCraw said.Senator Paul Bettencourt said the entire premise of lockdown and shooter training is worthless if school doors cannot be locked.
“Why is this person shooting? He’s killing somebody. Yet this incident commander finds every reason to do nothing.”
It was unacceptable