the police of Texas made the “wrong decision” by waiting almost an hour for more agents to enter the classroom of a primary school where the armed youth who murdered 19 children and two teachers on Tuesday barricaded himself. This has been confessed this Friday by an agent of the security forces, after days of growing criticism of the belated police action.
The survivors of shootingincluding the children, were calling the 911 emergency number from the classroom long after Salvador Ramos18, walked in with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle while police officers were in the hallway outside the classroom waiting for more help, said Col. Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety.
It took nearly an hour for officers to enter Robb Elementary in the small town of Uvalde because they were expecting a specially trained tactical team, a decision they now accept was “wrong.”
Related news
Someone McCraw did not identify called 911 multiple times beginning at 12:03 p.m., telling the policeman in a whisper there were several dead and that there were still “eight or nine” students alive, the colonel explained. A student called at 12:47 pm and asked the operator to send the police “now.”
Agents did not enter the classroom until 12:50 pm, according to McCraw, when a US Border Patrol tactical team used a janitor’s keys to open the locked door and kill Ramos.