Authorities walked back initial reports that an armed school resource officer had engaged the 18-year-old gunman, who made his way into the school unchallenged through an unlocked door at 11:40 a.m.
During the chaotic period, Escalon said, officers helped evacuate students and teachers from other parts of the school, while calls went out for more personnel and firepower.
Escalon said Texas Rangers head the investigation to determine, in part, how the gunman entered the building so easily.Neighbors and parents screamed and pleaded with officers to go into the school and save the children.Sources close to the investigation, not authorized to speak on the record, said the review of law enforcement actions is routine after a major incident, but it has intensified in this case because of differing accounts from neighbors and witnesses about what police did and when.
According to Escalon, the gunman scaled the school's perimeter fence after driving his grandmother's truck into a culvert around 11:28 a.m. The attacker took the truck after shooting his grandmother in the face. Authorities focused on an early timeline of law enforcement's convergence on Robb Elementary School, as community members pleaded for officers to storm the building.
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