More than a dozen DPS troopers waited in hallway during Uvalde massacre
DPS Director Steve McCraw addresses the news media during a press conference outside of Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Friday morning, May 27, 2022.As many as 13 troopers with the Texas Department of Public Safety waited in a hallway at one point during a gunman’s rampage that killedat Robb Elementary School in Uvalde last month, state Sen. Roland Gutierrez said.
In previous statements, McCraw has said that as many as 19 officers from various law enforcement agencies waited outside the classrooms. DPS has not publicly clarified the extent to which it was involved in the widely criticized police response to the May 24 mass shooting., was armed with an assault-style rifle and multiple large-capacity clips when he entered the school through an unlocked back door and walked to the adjoining classrooms where he killed his victims, police said.
In another exchange June 2, McCraw told Gutierrez that as many as 13 DPS troopers had massed in the hallway outside the classrooms at one point — waiting to make entry even as the massacre unfolded. Police Chief Pedro “Pete” Arredondo comforts a woman during a May 25 vigil for the victims of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde., Arredondo said he did not believe he was in charge at the scene of the massacre and never gave instructions not to breach the building.
Gutierrez questioned why state troopers on the scene would automatically defer to a school district officer with no radios.
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