New Harrowing Details: Texas Shooting Suspect Locked Himself Inside Classroom Where All Victims Were Found

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[Warning: Potentially Triggering Content] More unsettling details of Tuesday’s deadly mass school shooting in Texas have come out — as chaos continues to follow in its wake.

According to reports, the gunman who killed 19 elementary school students and 2 teachers with a semi-automatic rifle this week barricaded himself inside the classroom where all of his victims were found.

The revelation was made by Lt. Chris Olivarez from the Texas Department of Public Safety, who told CNN that officers responding to the shooting at Robb Elementary School were “at a point of disadvantage” because the shooter had already crouched down inside the classroom — the only classroom he had entered that fateful day. Related: Britney Spears Says Thoughts & Prayers Are ‘Not Enough’ After School Shooting Olivarez said the shooter entered the classroom at around 11:30 a.m., “locked the door, and just started shooting children and the two teachers” inside, telling the outlet: Olivarez said an initial lack of “sufficient man-power” at the scene had hindered police from engaging the shooter, so authorities started breaking classroom windows to evacuate students and their teachers instead, in an effort to save as many lives as possible.

When officers did exchange gunfire with the shooter later on, one officer was struck by a bullet and sustained a non-life-threatening wound.