A newly-released photo has captured heavily armed law enforcement officers outside the classroom in Uvalde a staggering 46 minutes before officers entered the room and shot the gunman dead.
And it was 28 minutes after the first officers arrived in the school hallway at around 11.36am armed with rifles and pistols and wearing bulletproof vests. This delayed response is believed to have cost some of their lives with one teacher dying in an ambulance on her way to hospital and three children succumbing to their injuries after arriving at hospital.
“Three minutes after the subject entered the west hallway, there was sufficient number of armed officers wearing body armour, to isolate distract and neutralise the subject,” he said. Chief Arredondo has previously said much of the delay was due to him waiting for keys to the classroom door. Even if the door was locked, law enforcement had access to a crowbar tool within minutes that could have been used to force open the door, he testified.
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