Reporters Press Texas Police Official On Timeline Of Response To School Massacre: “Why Don’t You Clear All Of This Up Now?”

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A Texas public safety official faced a barrage of questions over the timeline of police response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School that left 19 children and two teachers dead.Victor Escalon, South Texas regional director for the Department of Public Safety, told reporters that they are still trying to determine why it took an hour for tactical teams to arrive at the scene and back up local police who initially arrived at the school and were met by gunfire from the shooter.Escalon also said that a school resource officer did not confront the shooter outside the building, despite previous reports, and that he entered the school through an unlocked door.

The gunman “was not confronted by anybody,” he said.Escalon said that at about 11:28 AM on Tuesday, the shooter, having just shot his grandmother in the face, crashed his vehicle and then jumped out of the passenger side of his truck.“According to witnesses, he’s got a long arm rifle and a bag.

Later we find out it’s ammunition,” Escalon said.He said that the shooter then fired at two witnesses at a funeral home across the street from where he crashed the vehicle.

He then continued to walk toward the school, climbed a fence and shot at the school multiple times.At about 11:40, Escalon said, the shooter walked into the west side of the school and fired multiple shots.Four minutes after that, he said, the Uvalde Police Department and Independent School District Police Department arrived and went inside.“They hear gunfire, they take rounds, they move back and get cover,” he said.