Police admit they were slow to enter the classroom where the Texas shooter was while the children called 911

The Uvalde Elementary School killer fired 142 shots inside classrooms as more and more police officers crowded into a hallway without intervening, Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Safety, admitted Thursday at a news conference. after two days of false or erroneous information and constant rectifications from the authorities.

Meanwhile, the children

alerting the operators in whispers that they were locked in the classroom, terrified, within reach of the killer.

When the shooter was finally killed, an hour after the attack began, authorities found the bodies of 19 children and two teachers.

The commander in charge of the operation, who was not identified during the news conference, believed that the shooter had barricaded himself in a classroom where there were no children, McCraw said, and decided to delay the intervention until the arrival of reinforcements.

"It was a wrong decision, very wrong," McCraw admitted this Friday, "we should have entered immediately."

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“They believed that we had time, that there were no children,” he assured, and hinted that this mistake could cost lives because there were injured children who needed medical help as soon as possible to survive.

The governor of Texas, Gregg Abbott, reacted to the news in a press conference saying that he is furious about what happened: “Yes.

The information they gave me turned out to be partly inaccurate, and I am absolutely furious about it.”

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The police officer provided a new schedule of what happened that day at the press conference: at 11:28 on Tuesday morning, the murderer's Ford truck crashed into a ditch behind the school and the driver got out carrying a AR-15 rifle.

Earlier he had shot his grandmother in the face and had taken her car to run away;

The woman is among the more than a dozen injured who were hospitalized as a result of the tragedy.

After crashing the car, the killer shot two people who were in the area, who were able to escape, and then headed towards the school.

The door through which he entered had been opened a few minutes earlier by a teacher, McCraw said.

He entered the halls of Robb Elementary School and made his way to a fourth-grade classroom, where he barricaded himself shutting the door.

It was not until 12:58 p.m. when the radio conversations of the security forces indicate that he was killed.

What happened in those 90 minutes has sparked public anger and scrutiny over law enforcement's response to the massacre.

“They say they ran in,” said Javier Cazares, whose fourth-grade daughter, Jacklyn Cazares, was killed in the attack, and who ran to the school as the massacre unfolded.

"We didn't see that."

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After two days of often conflicting information, authorities finally admitted Thursday that the school district police officer who was supposed to watch the building wasn't there when the killer entered.

At first, he was reported to be at the door and confronted the killer to stop him.

This Thursday they clarified that, when he finally arrived, he inadvertently crossed paths with the murderer, who was crouched behind a vehicle.

McCraw described that at 11:27, based on video evidence, a teacher opened the exterior door where the shooter entered.

At 11:28 the killer crashes his vehicle into a ditch near the school.

"There were two men at a funeral home [across the street from the school], when they heard the crash, they rushed to the scene. Before they got there, they saw an armed individual coming out the passenger door," McCraw said.

The killer shot at them with the AR-15 rifle but did not hit them, and both men returned to take refuge in the funeral home.

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At 11:30, a teacher called 911 "terrified" to report that there had been an accident and there was an armed subject.

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Police cars were approaching the funeral home at the time, according to McCraw.

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"It had been mentioned that a Uvalde police officer confronted the suspect, [but] this did not occur, [...] there was no school police officer inside the building," McCraw added.

When this officer arrived at the scene, he went to the back of the school, where they thought the shooter was, but found a teacher.

from where he began shooting towards the school.

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The killer enters the school through the open door.

At 11:33 he entered rooms 111 and 112 and started shooting.

From the audio records, the authorities indicated that "more than 100 shots" were recorded.

Two minutes later, three Uvalde police officers entered the same door and were followed by six other officers.

At 11:37, 16 shots were fired, and at 11:51 more officers arrived at the scene.

At this time, several parents were begging the agents to enter but were reprimanded even by force for it, according to reports.

A total of 19 police officers entered the school corridor, but did not act because, according to McCraw, their commander estimated that it was no longer an active shooting but a shooter entrenched in an empty classroom.

When reinforcements arrived and tried to open the doors to the classrooms, they found that they were locked and had to ask a school employee for help to give them the key.

Officers engaged in a shootout with the gunman, who was barricaded in the fourth-grade classroom.

At 12:58, more than an hour after he started shooting, he was shot down.

The children called 911 in terror.

A girl who identified herself in her call and who was in room 112 communicated at 12:03 with the 911 emergency telephone number.

The conversation lasted one minute 23 seconds.

At 12:10 he called back and said there were dead students.

Just six minutes later, when she called back, she claimed there were eight or nine students alive.

Then, at 12:19, there was another call from another child, but he hung up because another child told him to.

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At 12:26 the first girl who called came back through and someone told her to be quiet;

shots were heard.

McCraw said.

Twenty minutes later she said that she could hear police in the adjoining room, more gunshots and officers apparently removing children from classrooms.

There is a lot of noise and then the call is cut off.

In total four children called 911;

two of them were killed.

Authorities found 1,657 cartridges, 315 in the school and 922 outside.

Of these, 142 bullet cartridges had been fired.