Uvalde leaders fumed during a closed-door meeting with Steven McCraw, the state’s top police official, days after the shooting at Robb Elementary School.
Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, speaks at a news conference outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, May 27, 2022, three days after the shooting that left 21 dead.
The heated encounter at Uvalde City Hall, which has not been previously reported, was among the earliest indications of a simmering feud between state and local officials that has since exploded into public view over who should be blamed for the 77 minutes it took heavily armed officers to kill the gunman after he first entered Robb Elementary School.
Such a finding would echo what others have already concluded after studying the sometimes contradictory versions of events offered by state and local officials. “There was zero hesitation on any of these officers’ part, they moved directly toward the gunfire,” the document said, only to be repelled when the gunman fired at them. Two of the officers were grazed by debris from the gunfire.
That description conflicted with the account McCraw has presented of officers not following standard training, developed after the deadly shooting at Columbine High School in 1999, that calls for officers to quickly confront a gunman and end the shooting. At a hearing in the state Capitol last month, McCraw said officers had enough firepower to confront the gunman within three minutes of his entering the school, but had been prevented from doing so by Arredondo.
The gathering at Uvalde City Hall had been arranged by Gov. Greg Abbott’s office because of rising tensions between Uvalde officials, including Mayor Don McLaughlin and the county judge, Bill Mitchell, and state police officials.
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