Uvalde resident Raul Nolasco Jr. stands by the memorial for victims of the Robb Elementary School shooting, at Uvalde Town Square, Texas, U.S., June 11, 2022. REUTERS/Lisa Krantz
June 21 (Reuters) - The classroom door in the Uvalde elementary school where 19 children and two teachers were killed in May was not locked even as police waited for a key, Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw said on Tuesday.
There was no evidence any law enforcement officer ever tried the classroom door to see if it was locked, McCraw said at a Texas Senate hearing into the shooting.
"I don't believe based on the information we have right now that door was ever secured," McCraw said. "He (the shooter) didn't have a key ... and he couldn't lock it from the inside."
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deadly_titanfart on June 22nd, 2022 at 04:58 UTC »
Highly suggest people watch the Texas Senate timeline breakdown of how everything went down. However bad you think it was, it was way worse. I was fucking fuming. 7 cops in the building within three minutes and just stood there in the hallway while this fuck head slaughtered two classrooms.
jkman61494 on June 22nd, 2022 at 04:21 UTC »
Sooooooo waiting on the janitor for an hour was just another lie huh
black_flag_4ever on June 22nd, 2022 at 03:53 UTC »
What the hell is all this tactical gear and training for? The one time these cops had to do something other than hand out speeding tickets and they failed horribly.