«Critical failures» delayed the police response to the 2022 shooting in Texas that killed 19 children and two teachers, according to a damning US Department of Justice review.
«Critical failures» delayed the police response to the 2022 shooting in Texas that killed 19 children and two teachers, according to a damning US Department of Justice review.
The report found shortcomings in «leadership, decision-making, tactics, policy and training» led to a confused response to gunman Salvador Ramos at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde on 24 May.
Officers should have immediately broken into the classroom to confront the 18-year-old gunman — but instead they treated him like a barricaded subject and left him inside with 33 pupils for more than an hour.
«The resulting delay provided an opportunity for the active shooter to have additional time to reassess and reengage his deadly actions inside the classroom,» the report added.
«It also contributed to a delay in medical interventions with the potential to impact survivability.
