The 18-year-old suspect who killed 21 people at a school in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday was not confronted by police before he entered the school, a Texas law enforcement official said, contradicting earlier comments from leaders and raising further questions about the police response to the massacre.
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Fri May 27, 2022
"He walked in unobstructed initially,"
Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Regional Director Victor Escalon said. "So from the grandmother's house, to the (ditch), to the school, into the school,
he was not confronted by anybody."
Apparently the police were either inept or uncoordinated. They already had reports of shots fired, and an armed gunman, and more shots fired. And the idea a teacher left the door propped open doesn't answer why multiple doors were unlocked.
Officers arrived at the school at 11:44 a.m., but when they went to confront the gunman, they received fire and took cover, Escalon said. Three law enforcement officers went in the same door the shooter used to enter the school and four went through another school entrance, DPS spokesperson Chris Olivarez