BREAKING: Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw condemned the law enforcement response to the mass shooting in Uvalde Tuesday, calling police efforts an “abject failure and antithetical to everything we have learned.”
Texas Department of Public Safety director Steve McCraw testifies Tuesday, June 21, 2022 in Austin during a meeting of the Senate Special Committee to Protect All Texans on the Senate floor. The committee was convened in the wake of Uvalde’s Robb Elementary School shooting in which 19 children and two adults were killed by a teenager with an AR 15-style assault rifle.
He squarely blamed Pete Arredondo, the chief of police for Uvalde school districts and on-scene commander during the shooting, for failing to confront the teenage gunman sooner. Latest reports indicate that first responders had arrived at Robb Elementary School just minutes after the shooting began — and had acquired bulletproof shields and assault-style weapons shortly after — and still waited more than an hour to enter the connected classrooms where the shooter had barricaded himself.
“Three minutes after the subject entered the west building, there was a sufficient number of armed officers wearing body armor to isolate, distract and neutralize the subject,” McCraw said.Twenty-one people, including 19 children, died on May 24. Another 17 were injured. “The only thing stopping a hallway of dedicated officers from entering room 111 and 112 was the on-scene commander, who decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children,” he said.that he never considered himself the incident commander but did everything he could to save lives, mostly hindered by a door he didn’t have the key to unlock.
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