Nineteen police officers waited for more than an hour in the hallway outside rooms 111 and 112 before a group finally entered and killed the perpetrator. The mayor announced that the primary school will be demolished
The head of the Uvalde school district police has been made available who was in charge of the operation when a gunman stormed the Rob Elementary School and killed 19 children and two teachers, became known yesterday Wednesday.
The announcement came a day after his director of public safety was sharply criticized TexasSteven McGraw, for the reaction of the police, which he characterized as “completely failed”.
Pete Arendo was in charge of the police operation on May 24 when an 18-year-old armed with an AR-15 semi-automatic weapon killed 19 elementary school students, aged 9 to 11, and two teachers.
Nineteen police officers waited for more than an hour in the hallway outside rooms 111 and 112 before a group finally entered and killed the perpetrator.
«We know one thing: there is indisputable evidence that the reaction of the security forces to the attack on Rob Elementary School was a complete failure and contrary to what we have learned in the last two decades after the Columbine massacre.In 1999, McGraw commented.
According to police practice, law enforcement forces must immediately confront perpetrators who invade schools even if it means that the lives of police officers will be endangered.
McGraw stressed that Arendo made “horrible decisions” that cost lives.
«The police had weapons, not the children. The police had bulletproof vests, not the children. The police are trained, not the perpetrator“, He added.
For his part 49-year-old Arendo He defended his actions in an interview with the Texas Tribune published on June 9, explaining that his main concern was to save the lives of as many teachers and students as possible. But he added that police could not find the key to unlock the door until 77 minutes after the massacre began.
McGraw responded to the allegation Tuesday by testifying to a Texas Senate committee that the door was unlocked and that there was no evidence that police were checking if it was open as colleagues searched for the key.
Moreover, yesterday the mayor of Uvalde announced that the primary school will be “demolished”. “One can never ask a child or a teacher to return to this school,” said Don McLaughlin.
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