Uvalde Police Said They Delayed Breaching The Classroom That The Shooter Was In Because They Didn't Know The Children Inside Were Still Alive

An official said that law enforcement officers who were in the hallway of the school did not go into the classroom because they thought the children were already dead.

The Texas Department of Public Safety director said Friday that there were no more children at risk because the on-scene commander believed it had transitioned from an active shooter to a barricaded subject.

There were children in that classroom that were at risk, and it was still an active shooter situation, and not a barricaded subject.

It is the latest excuse from law enforcement about the shifting timelines of their response to the Robb Elementary School shooting.

Hundreds of rounds were pumped in in 4 minutes into the two classrooms, and any firing afterwards was sporadic, and it was at the door.

The shooter entered the school at 11:30 a.m. and began shooting in one of the classrooms. Uvalde police officers followed two minutes later and entered the school as they exchanged gunfire with the shooter.

There were 19 officers in the hallway. The on-site commander decided that there was time to get the keys and wait for a tactical team to engage the shooter, he said.

After getting keys from the janitor, law enforcement entered the classrooms and killed the shooter.

It was not the right decision with the benefit of hindsight. It was the wrong decision.

Children inside the adjoining classrooms were making frantic calls to the police to save them.

The first call came in at the same time as 19 officers arrived in the hallway. The girl said she was in Room 112. She said that 8 to 9 students were still alive and that there were multiple people dead in the room.

The caller said the door had been shot at. She asked the police to be sent to her at 12:43 and 12:47 p.m.

A person who said she was in the adjoining classroom called the police after another student told her to.

It is not clear why police assumed the children inside the classrooms were already dead when they were still calling.

The Uvalde community is angry at the law enforcement account of the police response.

Parents outside the school told the Wall Street Journal that police tried to stop them from entering the school to help their children, during the shooting.

The New York Times reported that federal agents who traveled from the Mexico border to Uvalde were held back from entering the school by the local police.

The latest version of events provided by law enforcement raised more questions about how the police handled the shooting and if their delay led to more children being killed.

I don't have anything to say to the parents other than what happened.