Children inside a Texas elementary school begged the police to enter their classroom and save them, repeatedly calling 911, as a team of 19 police officers waited in the corridor for an hour because a commander believed the situation had shifted from active shooter to a barricaded subject, a Texas law enforcement officer said Friday.
“Of course, it wasn’t the right decision. Period.” Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw said at a news conference.
With pressure mounting to explain the delayed police response to the massacre that killed 19 children and two teachers, Gov. Greg Abbott scrapped plans to attend the National Rifle Assn.’s annual convention in Houston and will travel to the grieving town of Uvalde on Friday to provide more information.
Investigators are interviewing witnesses and poring through video to piece together a timeline that explains how the 18-year-old gunman, Salvador Ramos, was able to walk up to the school with a long-arm rifle, enter through an unlocked door and barricade himself inside a classroom for nearly an hour before he was shot and killed.
Earlier this week, Abbott hailed the speedy response of “valiant local officials” who he said had engaged the gunman before he entered Robb Elementary School.
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