The local police took her “wrong decision” On Tuesday, avoiding a quick raid inside the school in the small town of Uwalde where the 18-year-old who committed the massacre was fortified, said on Friday Steven McCraw, director of Public Safety of the Texas state police.
The murder of 18-year-old Salvador Ramos and the mishandling of the police led to lose 21 people at school, two teachers and 19 children.
“As it turned out, now, of course, was not the right decision. It was the wrong decision, End of story”, he stated categorically, when asked about the time it took for the intervention of the forces of order, which was strongly criticized. Nineteen agents were on the scene waiting for a border police intervention unit, almost an hour after a sniper, Salvador Ramos, broke into the school.
“Of course we do not see this having an ex-post advantage, it was clear from the beginning that there were still students inside and they were in danger.”
“The decision was wrong of police when he believed he had a “fortified person” who was no longer an active sniper at a Texas school. “Dot and hyphen”, he stated in a press conference.
See the timeline of the attack, which was made public by the police:
The police had not entered the classroom until at 12.50 noon, according to McCraw, when a U.S. Border Patrol strike team used keys from a doorman to open the locked door and kill Ramos.
Several police officers initially exchanged fire with Ramos shortly after he entered the school at 11.33 a.m., when two police officers were wounded by bullets. There were 19 police officers in the hallway until 12.03, McCraw said – at the same time as the first 911 call was received from inside the classroom.
Panicked children and teachers made six calls to emergency services from Texas school classrooms where a massacre was taking place, begging police to intervene, while 19 police officers waited in a hallway for almost an hour before entering the room, authorities announced today.
At least two children called the 911 emergency number from two communicating classes after 18-year-old Salvador Ramos entered the school with an AR-15 semi-automatic assault rifle.
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