According to videos and documents available to the newspaper, at least 12 of the 33 children and three teachers were still alive from the moment the fire started until the moment the men of the border guard invaded.
Police officers of Uvalde, Texas they waited for over an hour before the raid took place in the two connected rooms of the primary Rob school where an 18-year-old gunman was fortified, although they knew there were children who were injuredbut still alive inside, the New York Times revealed on Thursday.
Based on videos, documents and other items, the newspaper reported that at least 12 of the 33 children and three teaching staff in both rooms were still alive from the moment the fire started until the moment they invaded men of the border guard and killed Salvador Ramos, one hour and 17 minutes later.
The school district chief was anxious, according to videos and other documents, about how long it would take his men to find protective equipment and find a key to the doors of the two halls, according to the NYT report. «People will ask why we needed so much time “is heard to say someone who is believed to be the Pete Arendo in video from the camera worn by a police officer.
The May 24 attack on Uvalde, a small town in Hill County, west of San Antonio, cost the lives of 19 children and two teachers. It was the deadliest gun attack in a school in the last decade.
According to the New York Times, one of the teachers cooled down in an ambulance. Three children succumbed to the hospitals where they were treated.
This raises questions about whether their lives could have been saved if the police had intervened earlier.
Authorities admitted, though several days before recognizing it, that 19 police officers waited for about an hour outside rooms 111 and 112 before a border guard unit invaded and killed the gunman.
According to the authorities, Mr. Arendo decided to wait, not to immediately send the police to invade, because he believed that the immediate threat to children had decreased, after the initial storm of shootings.
Two police officers were slightly injured by bullets fired by Salvador Ramos when they tried to reach one of the classrooms. No further attempt was made until about 40 minutes had elapsed.
THE Steven McGraw, The head of the Texas security forces stressed that the decision of the police to wait was “The wrong decision”also acknowledging that at least two schoolgirls trapped inside made desperate phone callswhispering, in immediate action – at number 911 – begging for help.
It is unknown at this time what he will do after leaving the post, according to the NYT. However, the material gathered by the newspaper reveals that at some point, they knew that not all the victims in the halls were dead.
THE Reuben Ruizone of the six uniformed men of Mr. Arendodo’s school police force, ran to the scene to tell his colleagues that his wife, Eva Mireles, had called him, was injured but still alive, through one of the rooms where invaded the gunman.
She later succumbed to her injuries.
Mr. Arendo did not want to make any statements to the newspaper.
