In a press conference today, Texas DPS Director Steven McCraw criticized the decision by local Uvalde police to not breach the classroom door:
NEW: Texas DPS director criticizes local police decision to not breach classroom at Robb Elementary school in Uvalde during the mass shooting.
“There was no excuse for that, it was the wrong decision,” he says.
Said on scene commander decided to treat as a barricade. @FoxNews
— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) May 27, 2022
That incident commander thought there was no more threat to the children and they had time to organize:
Texas official: The decision to not breach the classroom was made by the Chief of Police for the school district.
"He was convinced at that time that there was no more threat to the children…and that they had time to organize…" pic.twitter.com/TKRmatNfWO
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) May 27, 2022
Here’s a video where he elaborated on why the Uvalde police department should have continued to breach the door:
I’m working on getting the full press conference on all of this because there were a lot of details shared about what happened during the police response and the timeline.
One of those details shared was that a teacher had propped open the door of the school before Ramos crashed. That’s how he got in:
BREAKING: Texas DPS announces that a teacher at Robb Elementary School propped a door open at the school before the mass shooting. The school resource officer drove to campus after hearing 911 call, inadvertently drove right by the shooter, who was kneeling down by car. @FoxNews
— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) May 27, 2022
A Texas official now says that the door that the shooter used to enter the school was propped open by a teacher. pic.twitter.com/bYWvHIBXqB
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) May 27, 2022
There were a total of seven officers on scene by 11:35, two of which received grazing wounds by the shooter:
A Texas official says that by 11:35 AM there were a total of seven officers on the scene. pic.twitter.com/KeAcluLvgG
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) May 27, 2022
Below is the ‘digital timeline’ of messages leading up to the school shooting:
UPDATE: Below is the full press conference: