The Uvalde school police chief didn’t know of the panicked 911 calls coming from students trapped inside school, says Texas Sen. Roland Gutierrez, who called it a 'system failure.'
The gunman, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, spent
inside the school, and more than an hour passed from when the first officers followed him into the building and when he was killed by law enforcement.Thursday’s developments from Uvalde, TX on the school massacre that left 21 dead shifted focus to law enforcement response. Many are questioning why many officers were not inside the building trying to take down the gunman and why he was in that doomed classroom for more than an hour before he was taken out by a Border Patrol agent.
Since the shooting, law enforcement and state officials have struggled to present an accurate timeline and details of the event and how police responded, sometimes providing conflicting information or withdrawing some statements hours later. State police have said some accounts were preliminary and may change as more witnesses are interviewed.Much of the focus turned to Arredondo.
Gutierrez said it’s unclear if any details from the 911 calls was being shared with law enforcement officers from multiple agencies on the scene."Uvalde PD was the one receiving the 911 calls for 45 minutes while officers were sitting in a hallway, while 19 officers were sitting in a hallway for 45 minutes" Gutierrez said. "We don’t know if it was being communicated to those people or not.
But, the senator said, the Commission on State Emergency Communications told him school district police chief did not know.
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