'The on-scene commander waited for radio and rifles. And he waited for shields, and he...
Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw on Tuesday condemned the law enforcement response to last month’s mass shooting at a Uvalde elementary school, calling police efforts an “abject failure and antithetical to everything we have learned over the past two decades.”
“Three minutes after the subject entered the west building, there was a sufficient number of armed officers wearing body armor to isolate, distract and neutralize the subject,” McCraw said. McCraw was testifying before the state Senate’s new committee evaluating school safety and gun violence. The group met for the first time on Tuesday, the beginning of what is expected to be a lengthy process of determining how legislators should respond to the shooting when they reconvene in Austin next year.that he never considered himself the incident commander but did everything he could to save lives, mostly hindered by a door he didn’t have the key to unlock.
Authorities could hear the gunman continuing to fire over the next several minutes. At 11:48 a.m., school police officer Ruben Ruiz told first responders that his wife, teacher Eva Mireles, had been shot. She died later that day.
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