How Well-Barricaded Was the Texas Shooter in the Classroom?

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Tess Owen
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There were windows in Room 111, where more than a dozen children and two teachers were killed by a gunman they were locked in with. So why didn't law enforcement use those windows strategically?

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How Well-Barricaded Was the Texas Shooter in the Classroom?
While the initial police narrative into the Uvalde shooting has completely fallen apart, they remain tight-lipped about what options, if any, were considered into breaching the classroom.
11:50 AM · Jun 1, 2022

https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgdebj/texas-school-shooter-how-barricaded-was-classroom

There’s still a lot about the police’s response to last week’s massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas that doesn’t appear to make sense.

Texas’ Director of Public Safety Steve McCraw confirmed Friday that 19 officers waited for 78 minutes as a heavily armed gunman slaughtered fourth grade kids inside a classroom, even as those same kids made desperate calls to 911 begging for help.

McCraw said, even though 911 calls were continuing to come from inside the classroom, the on-scene commander concluded that all the children trapped with the shooter were no longer “at risk”. This determination led the on-scene commander to believe they had the luxury of waiting for back-up—and for the janitor to find the keys so that they could open the door to the classroom.

One line of questioning from the public still struggling to wrap their heads around what happened has focused on the building’s layout and internal structure.

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