Their report, which painted the most complete portrait to date of the massacre, described a series of “shortcomings and failures of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District and of various agencies and officers of law enforcement.”
Family members of the victims say the anguish of losing their loved ones has been compounded by a failure on the part of state and local leaders to articulate what took police officers nearly 77 minutes to confront and kill the 18-year-old gunman. In those first hours, officials painted a picture of heroism and fast action by police -- but in the days and weeks since, that portrait has been turned on its head.
Last month, at a hearing before a state Senate panel, Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw called the police response an"abject failure" and claimed that enough officers and equipment arrived on the scene within three minutes to"neutralize" the shooter.
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