UPDATE: Officials in Texas offered a more detailed timeline of events about the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. One acknowledged it was wrong to delay confronting the gunman inside.
amid mounting public anger and scrutiny over law enforcement's response to Tuesday's rampage.
At a news conference Friday, Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, said that the door the suspect is believed to have entered was left propped open by a teacher minutes before the gunman crashed his truck outside Robb Elementary School. McCraw said two local officers first entered the school at 11:35 a.m., two minutes after the gunman, who hadHe said by 12:03 p.m. there were 19 officers in the hallway, but they did not breach the class door and confront the gunman until 12:50 p.m., when a janitor provided keys.
McCraw said while there was a barrage of gunfire shortly after the gunman entered the classroom, the shots were “sporadic” for much of the 48 minutes that officers sent waiting outside the hallway. He said investigators do not know if or how many children died during those 48 minutes.
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