A Texas Congressional report, released Sunday, points to several errors by local and federal authorities during the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, which killed 19 children and two teachers. According to the document, the school’s rescue operation involved 376 officers in a “chaotic and uncoordinated scene that lasted over an hour”. Authorities reportedly took a long time to enter the classroom where the gunman, Salvador Ramos, had barricaded himself with a group of students due to “systemic failures and extremely poor decision making”, the report says.
Also according to the document, 149 US Border Patrol agents attended the school, as Uvalde is just a few kilometers from Mexico, 91 state police officers, 25 Uvalde police officers and 16 sheriffs, in addition to agents from neighboring counties and other agencies. federal. Interviewed by the congressional committee, several agents who participated in the operation explained that they did not know who was responsible for the operation and others said that Arredondo was responsible.
The report states that no agency, federal or state, offered to lead the operation despite being more prepared than the local police, and Border Patrol agents ended up walking into the classroom and shooting the shooter without asking the boss for permission. of the local police, Pete Arredondo. The commission also found that Robb primary school staff used to leave school doors unlocked due to the lack of keys for all teachers.
“If school staff had locked the doors as required by protocol, they could have slowed (the shooter’s) progress for a few minutes,” the study states. The report also highlights that Salvador Ramos, who legally acquired the AR-15 assault rifle with which he carried out the assassination, had demonstrated on social media that he was preparing an attack.
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